Definitions
Gemstone with shifting colors in a milky or translucent body.
Word origin
In Florio’s A World of Words 1598 as opale, from French opale, from Latin opalus, from Byzantine Greek ὀπάλλιος (opállios), from Sanskrit उपल (upala, “gem, stone”), from उपरि (upári, “the upper millstone”). Distantly related to over.
Used in a sentence
“The witchery of the dawn turned the grey river-reaches to purple, gold, and opal; and it was as though the lumbering dhoni crept across the splendors of a new heaven.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Iridescent gemstone”4 letters
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