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opaline

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opaline [′ō·pə‚lēn]
(mineralogy)
Any of several minerals related to or resembling opal.
An earthy form of gypsum.
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The great cloud-barred disk of the sun stood just above a limitless expanse of tossing white-caps--so to speak--a billowy chaos of massy mountain domes and peaks draped in imperishable snow, and flooded with an opaline glory of changing and dissolving splendors, while through rifts in a black cloud-bank above the sun, radiating lances of diamond dust shot to the zenith.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent.
Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
This glitter, this opaline lustre plays round the top of every toy to his eye to insure his fidelity, and he is deceived to his good.
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