chatoyant.

Showing a band or shifting sheen of reflected light, especially the cat’s-eye effect in certain gems or lustrous fibers.

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Words that belong together

• a chatoyant gemstone
• chatoyant silk

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The chatoyant stone’s bright band moved as she turned it.

A fold of chatoyant silk changed its sheen beneath the window.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Relational or color adjective; more and most only in a natural qualitative comparison. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.