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/ʃəˈtɔɪ.ənt/ · adjective
(jewelry) Having a certain optical reflectance effect, which can be likened to the sheen of a spool of silk..
chatoyant effect
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.
Cover a tin using two or more colors of chatoyant clay separated by black strips.
Use chatoyant when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Chatoyant means (jewelry) Having a certain optical reflectance effect, which can be likened to the sheen of a spool of silk..
Common synonyms include iridescent, shot, changeable, colorful.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
chatoyant effect
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