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Nacre

noun
(Written also nacker and naker)
1.
The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell.  Synonym: mother-of-pearl.



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... with a smile. "But it's an interesting subject—so interesting that I only abandoned my reading when I found I was burning my electric lamp by daylight. Listen: A pearl is nothing more or less than nacre, a fluid secretion of a certain variety of oyster—not the eatable kind. A grain of sand gets between the folds of the oyster and its shell and irritates the beast. In self-defense the oyster covers the sand with a fluid which hardens ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West • Edith Van Dyne
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