opalescent

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• The opalescent, minty-green louche billows under the ice water droplets.

• For a second the lily was enveloped in a milk-white foam, which disappeared, leaving the fluid opalescent.

• Boris plunged in his hand and drew out an exquisite marble thing, blue-veined, rose-tinted, and glistening with opalescent drops.

• The saline tracts between the prisms produce a milky or opalescent appearance.

• We mounted to the upper deck, under the open sky, with its opalescent tints and shifting clouds to the west.

• First, silvery threads of light began to weave along the bristling ridges of the east and opalescent flecks to glimmer overhead.

• Two Venetian glass vases on the mantel gave out an opalescent gleam in the twilight.

• When a great quantity of gelatin is present the filtrate will be opalescent instead of perfectly clear.