Opalescent

Oh – the purple blue opalescent is my fav, followed by the blue-red. ❋ Unknown (2008)

To the observer of the aura the term "opalescent" instinctly presents itself, for there is a striking resemblance to the opaline peculiar play of colors of delicate tints and shades in a body of pearly or milky hue. ❋ Swami Panchadasi (N/A)

The sun was not idle, and the steaming thaw washed the mud and foulness from the bergs till they blazed like heaped diamonds in the brightness, or shimmered opalescent-blue. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And what a vision it was; the newspaper describes the sweet treat thus: "The bean, of red and gold, has an opalescent beauty, like some piece of ancient amber." ❋ April Daniels Hussar (2011)

I sleep at last, wrapped in his arms, and dream of pearls falling one by one through the narrow neck of an hourglass, winding around its bottom like an opalescent ribbon that will shortly reach its end. ❋ Lucy Weston (2011)

Natalie Keyssar for The Wall Street Journal Before moving in, Mr. Isaacson made slight alternations, removing the wall that separated the living room from the kitchen, and retiling the home's two bathrooms in mosaic tiles—one in blue, pictured here, and the other in opalescent green. ❋ Maya Pope-Chappell (2011)

Built using curved douglas fir plywood and tubular steel, everything is delicately illuminated by an opalescent storage wall and luminous bricks. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is a little cape of opalescent cloth, as fine as a cobweb. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And where is the miraculous, opalescent thing of beauty headed next? ❋ April Daniels Hussar (2011)

Then she appears, and it's hard to imagine this small, opalescent woman in a pink tunic, black slip over black leggings and tiny black ❋ Unknown (2010)

Of course, Louis Comfort Tiffany is most famous for the stained-glass windows and lighting featuring his patented opalescent glassmaking techniques. ❋ Stuart Ferguson (2011)

He made slight alternations to the 1,509-square-foot home before moving in, removing the wall that separated the living room from the kitchen, and retiling the home's two bathrooms in mosaic tiles—one in blue, the other in opalescent green. ❋ Maya Pope-Chappell (2011)

The core is white, white, and a flicker of blue, opalescent, unimaginable - ❋ Stringmonkey (2009)

It was large as a pigeon egg, a perfect sphere, of a whiteness that reflected opalescent lights from all colors about it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

An arrangement of peacock feather tips decorated the top of the canopy, and white feather trimming cascaded down each of the columns into a pool of opalescent and white round glass ornaments resembling oversized pearls. ❋ David Tutera (2011)

If the full moon is bright, I stroll over to the base of Yosemite Falls and look into the mist for the shimmering, opalescent “moonbow.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mountains of fresh cucumbers, radishes, and green onions, whole heads of romaine, and delicate, opalescent peeled white onions. ❋ Annia Ciezadlo (2011)