What is the meaning of pearlescent?

adjective

  • Having a play of lustrous rainbow colors)
    • usage: "an iridescent oil slick"; "nacreous (or pearlescent) clouds looking like mother-of-pearl"; "a milky opalescent (or opaline. luster"
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