Meaning of irisate | Babel Free

Definitions

Iridescent.

Examples

“I have⟳ never been able, any more than Sir D. Brewster and other observers, to detect⟳ the variegated or irisate colours mentioned by Newton, neither on myself nor in the numerous cases where I have⟳ applied compression.”

“One might travel⟳ far without ever having ever an opportunity again to see⟳ such a confusion of mists, winds, sunshine, moonlight and showers, and irisate colour effects as in Melville Dewey's confuse⟳ and effeminate pictures.”

“In place⟳ of the grey clouds, which passed and passed again, darkening thoughts and things alike, is an immense void, profound and clear, which this evening is of an irisate blue, of a blue turning, on the horizon, to the green of aqua-marina.”

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