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Sunday, January 24, 2010

*My* word of the day: chatoyant

Dictionary.com: –adjective. 1. changing in luster or color: chatoyant silk. 2. Jewelry. reflecting a single streat of light when cut in a cabochon. -noun. Jewelry. a cabochon-cut gemstone having this reflected streak, as a chrysoberyl cat's-eye

Webster's: to shine like a cat's eye: having a changeable luster or color with an undulating narrow band of white light

1 comment:

angel corpus christi said...

ya mean like a cat with one eye on a flickering light? :-)