Crossword-Solution: OPALESCENCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Opalescence | n. | A reflection of a milky or pearly light from the interior of a mineral, as in the moonstone; the state or quality of being opalescent. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with OPALESCENCE (5)
And in the midst of it all the girl shone like the one evening star in the mystic opalescence of twilight.
Miles away, gigantic luminous cliffs sprang sheer from the limits of a lake whose waters were of milky opalescence.
The Golden Girl pressed upon its side; it slipped softly back; a torrent of opalescence gushed out of the opening--and as one in a dream I entered.
From the edge of this rim streamed upward a steady, coruscating mist of the opalescence, veined even as was that of the Dweller's shining core and shot with milky shadows like curdled moonlight; up it stretched like a wall.
Behind the soft, milky opalescence of the wall glimmers the egg- tabernacle, with its form vaguely suggesting the star of some order of knighthood.
Quotes with OPALESCENCE (1)
A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.