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chatoyant

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9 lettersPronunciation /ʃəˈtɔɪ.ənt/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aachnottyStarts with CEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles

Word origin

From French chatoyant, present participle of chatoyer (“to iridesce, like a cat's eye”), from chat (“cat”, because of the reflective qualities of a cat's eye).

Used in a sentence

  • chatoyant effect
  • I managed to move sufficiently to see at the top, as I fired up the stairs, the yellow face of Dr. Fu-Manchu, to see the gleaming, chatoyant eyes, greenly terrible, as they sought to pierce the gloom.
  • Cover a tin using two or more colors of chatoyant clay separated by black strips.

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