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Chatoyant

Having a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat's eye in the dark.

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Colorful 84% connected

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Changeable 92% connected

Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.

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Iridescent 92% connected

Having colors like the rainbow; exhibiting a play of changeable colors; nacreous; prismatic; as, iridescent glass.

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Allochroic adjective · 78% connection

Changeable in color.

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Amphibole noun · 78% connection

A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, general…

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Black adjective · 78% connection

Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of…

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Blonde noun · 78% connection

A kind of silk lace originally of the color of raw silk, now sometimes dyed; -- called also blond lace.

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Cocoon noun · 78% connection

An oblong case in which the silkworm lies in its chrysalis state. It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving…

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Crepon noun · 78% connection

A thin stuff made of the finest wool or silk, or of wool and silk.

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Damask noun · 78% connection

Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like.

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Dark adjective · 78% connection

Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep…

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Dingy superl. · 78% connection

Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty.

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Dun adjective · 78% connection

Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.

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Filature noun · 78% connection

A reel for drawing off silk from cocoons; also, an establishment for reeling silk.

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Foulard noun · 78% connection

A thin, washable material of silk, or silk and cotton, originally imported from India, but now also made elsewhere.

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Frizette noun · 78% connection

A curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.

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Garnet noun · 78% connection

A mineral having many varieties differing in color and in their constituents, but with the same crystallization (isometric), and confo…

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Gauze noun · 78% connection

A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze.

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Gloss noun · 78% connection

Brightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss.

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Glossy superl. · 78% connection

Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; lustrous; as, glossy silk; a glossy surface.

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Grogran noun · 78% connection

A coarse stuff made of silk and mohair, or of coarse silk.

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