Nacre

Definitions

1. A shellfish which contains mother-of-pearl.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. A pearly substance made mainly of stacked layers of aragonite and organic matter which lines the interior of many shells; mother-of-pearl.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The shell-fish called a Nacre, liveth even so with the Pinnotere, which is a little creature like⟳ unto a Crabfish[…].”

“On a little table of dark perfumed wood thickly encrusted with nacre, […]was lying a note⟳ from Lord Henry, and beside it was a book bound in yellow paper, the cover⟳ slightly torn and the edges soiled.”

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