pearly
pur lee
- n informal terms for a human `tooth'
- s of a white the color of pearls
- The films, digitally remastered from archive prints, look beautiful in their pearly black-and-white tones--as does The Black Pirate (1926) in its surprisingly sumptuous two-strip .
- Bean, dressed as a pearly king, taking a pratfall as he reaches to light the Olympic torch? A phalanx of bowler-hatted dancers reprising John Cleese's repertoire of silly walks?.
- Insect behavior also can hold the key to finding a body; flocks of the beautiful Southern pearly eyed butterfly, for example, gather to feed on sugar-rich body fluids.