mother-of-pearl
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1. mother-of-pearl - Noun
2. mother-of-pearl - Adjective
Meaning
The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAlternative names
mother of pearl
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For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink.
A vintage set of shirt studs and double-sided cufflinks with a smoke mother of pearl inlay in a gold setting.
In seeding the cultured pearl, a piece of mantle muscle from a sacrificed oyster is placed with a bead of mother of pearl within the oyster.
Pieces are sophisticated in their design, and feature inlays of turquoise, mother of pearl, spondylus shell, and amethyst.
It gives the OnePlus 6 a milky, mother-of-pearl appearance that I haven’t seen before on a phone.
Each of Turnbull & Asser 's shirts are finished with 13 mother-of-pearl buttons that are graded and polished for lustre, and thermally fused to ensure they never detach.