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Recent Examples of iridescent from the Web
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Later, St. Clair decorated the bed with cushions made of iridescent fabric in shades of yellow and raspberry.
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In one corner of this room, sheets of iridescent paper, brighter than pea soup, spread across the floor and partially up one wall like a wave.
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A lingering construction worker in an iridescent-green vest strolled over to assess our plight.
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But the peacock begonia has iridescent leaves—and that’s much weirder.
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Kanye West wore a loosefitting metallic jacket and a pair of colored contact lenses that turned his eyes a kind of iridescent blue.
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The pencils come in five different finishes including matte, satin, metallic, iridescent, and diamond.
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Last year, Spanish architecture studio Selgascano designed a crooked structure of bright, iridescent materials that brought to mind a futuristic fun house.
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Iridescent photovoltaic-paint roofs became drop zones.
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Iris, the Greek goddess of the rainbow, took messages from Mount Olympus to earth, and from gods to mortals or other gods, using the rainbow as her stairway. Iridescence is thus the glowing, shifting, colorful quality of a rainbow, also seen in an opal, a light oil slick, a butterfly wing, or the mother-of-pearl that lines an oyster shell.
1796
First Known Use of iridescent
1796
IRIDESCENT Defined for English Language Learners
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: shining with many different colors when seen from different angles
IRIDESCENT Defined for Kids
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: having iridescence
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