Pearly
['pɜːlɪ] or ['pɝli]
Definition
(a.) Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells.
(a.) Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
Editor: Verna
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Abounding in pearls.[2]. Clear, pure, transparent, nacreous.
Typed by Ewing
Examples
- All these are crushing questions; but whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Far off in the bending sky was the pearly light; and she felt the largeness of the world and the manifold wakings of men to labor and endurance. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Edited by Lancelot