nacré

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A shellfish which contains mother-of-pearl.

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

2. isim A pearly substance made mainly of stacked layers of aragonite and organic matter which lines the interior of many shells; mother-of-pearl.

   “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.”

3. sıfat Having an iridescence like that of nacre, or mother-of-pearl.

   “nacré ware”