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Nacre  n.  (Written also nacker and naker)  (Zool.) A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells, and is most perfect in the mother-of-pearl. See Pearl, and Mother-of-pearl.






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"Nacre" Quotes from Famous Books



... de Numidie une robe faite de plumes d'autruche. J'ai un cristal qu'il n'est pas permis aux femmes de voir et que meme les jeunes hommes ne doivent regarder qu'apres avoir ete flagelles de verges. Dans un coffret de nacre j'ai trois turquoises merveilleuses. Quand on les porte sur le front on peut imaginer des choses qui n'existent pas, et quand on les porte dans la main on peut rendre les femmes steriles. Ce sont des tresors de grande valeur. Ce sont des tresors sans prix. Et ...
— Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde - with a Preface by Robert Ross • Oscar Wilde

... whereof neither the beginning nor the ending can possibly be discerned. Only the kantiyui knows the key to that riddle. And the whole is held in place with curious ornamental combs, and shot through with long fine pins of gold, silver, nacre, transparent tortoise-shell, or lacquered wood, with cunningly ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan • Lafcadio Hearn



Words linked to "Nacre" :   nacreous, shell, mother-of-pearl



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