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  • n  the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface

  • Many of the 90 guests who gathered in Leonard Bernstein's fashionable Park Avenue apartment had the iridescence of Beautiful People.
  • It gave off an iridescence; and some persons grew frightened until scientists assured them that while the tail was indeed a million miles long, the whole affair did not have .
  • Flying over the neighborhoods where water reaches the eaves of most houses, my nostrils burn with the fumes of diesel fuel, which swirls in rainbow iridescence in the fetid eddies .

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