Chatoyant

Quick meaning: Chatoyant is an adjective meaning (jewelry) Having a certain optical reflectance effect, which can be likened to the sheen of a spool of silk.

Meaning

(jewelry) Having a certain optical reflectance effect, which can be likened to the sheen of a spool of silk.

More Meanings

1. (mineralogy) A hard stone, such as the cat's-eye, which presents on a polished surface, and in the interior, an undulating or wavy light.

Example Sentences

chatoyant effect

Cover a tin using two or more colors of chatoyant clay separated by black strips.

I managed to move sufficiently to see at the top, as I fired up the stairs, the yellow face of Dr. Fu-Manchu, to see the gleaming, chatoyant eyes, greenly terrible, as they sought to pierce the gloom.

Word Forms

• chatoyants

Synonyms for chatoyant

Depending on context, synonyms include iridescent, changeable, colorful, colourful.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include iridescent, colorful, colourful, changeable, cymophanous, pearllike.

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