Adjective : chatoyant silk. From Dictionary.com.
Tigers Eye is what they call "chatoyant," - the so called cat's eye effect. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
Another interesting variety of this blue sapphire is one known as "chatoyant"; this has a rapidly changing lustre, which seems to undulate between a green-yellow and a luminous blue, with a phosphorescent glow, or fire, something like that seen in the eyes of a cat in the dark, or the steady, burning glow observed when the cat is fascinating a bird -- hence its name. From Wordnik.com. [The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones] Reference
She saw Lucifer, along with the other white winged angels being cast from Heaven: a chatoyant harmony of colors reflected from their extraordinary falling movements until they eventually disappeared into a deep, dark void. From Wordnik.com. [Nell Shea] Reference
She invariably wore gloves out of doors and a veil to conceal the chatoyant eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Green Eyes of Bâst] Reference
"Moon-stone," a variety of pearly adularia presenting chatoyant rays when simply polished. From Wordnik.com. [Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
Three groups of controls for adding chatoyant, perforated, and regular polygons (in the mentioned order). From Wordnik.com. [The Code Project Latest Articles] Reference
He shook himself free and stood straight, his jaws hard and his eyes, absorbing what light there was from the stars, chatoyant. From Wordnik.com. [A Splendid Hazard] Reference
At one of the machines sat a woman whose age could not have exceeded twenty-eight years, with a figure of the Juno type, and a beautiful dark face where tawny chatoyant eyes showed the baleful fire of a leopardess. From Wordnik.com. [At the Mercy of Tiberius] Reference
Either because they possessed a chatoyant quality of their own (as I had often suspected), or by reason of the light reflected through the open window, the green eyes gleamed upon me vividly like those of a giant cat. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil Doctor] Reference
As Beryl pushed open the iron door, and held up the lantern, that its brightness might stream into the cell, where even at five o'clock in the afternoon of a rainy day darkness reigned, the rays flashed back from the glowing eyes chatoyant as a cougar's. From Wordnik.com. [At the Mercy of Tiberius] Reference
Down among the graves, in the brown grass and withered leaves, behind a tall shaft, around which coiled a carved marble serpent with hooded head-there, amid the dead, crouched a woman's figure, with a stony face and blue chatoyant eyes, that glared with murderous hate at the sweet countenance of the happy bride. From Wordnik.com. [St. Elmo] Reference
OH Ai had nebber scene teh Pietersite but teh Wiki says it’s chatoyant like teh tigerseye!. From Wordnik.com. [IMPOSTER! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Sir Brian Malpas) a chatoyant quality; they alternately dilated and contracted in a most remarkable manner -- in a manner which attracted the immediate attention of Mr. Gianapolis. From Wordnik.com. [The Yellow Claw] Reference
An effervescent wine. chatoyant. From Wordnik.com. [2009 January 28 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference
The effect is very brilliant and chatoyant. From Wordnik.com. [The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890] Reference
Dark and misty. chatoyant. From Wordnik.com. [GeekLikeMe.net] Reference
As it walks: shimmer, chatoyant, neon. From Wordnik.com. [dbqp: visualizing poetics] Reference
The brown, chatoyant in the sun, appropriates the sun itself, mingles it with its mirages, floats, undulates, varies ceaselessly in its brook-like reflections, by moments smiles in the light or glooms in the shade, deceives always, and, whatever you say of it, gives you the lie charmingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
What! are not these garlands and gauzy mists and many-colored streamers which adorn you, is not this music which welcomes you, this radiance that glows about you, meant solely for your enjoyment, young miss of seventeen or eighteen summers, now for the first time swimming unto the frothy, chatoyant, sparkling, undulating sea of laces and silks and satins, and white-armed, flower-crowned maidens struggling in their waves beneath the lustres that make the false summer of the drawing-room?. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Venner] Reference
What! are not these garlands and gauzy mists and many-colored streamers which adorn you, is not this music which welcomes you, this radiance that glows about you, meant solely for your enjoyment, young miss of seventeen or eighteen summers, now for the first time swimming into the frothy, chatoyant, sparkling, undulating sea of laces and silks and satins, and white-armed, flower-crowned maidens struggling in their waves, beneath the lustres that make the false summer of the drawing-room?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
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