If you're familiar with the way that the gemstone opal shimmers like a pearl, then you'll understand that something opalescent reflects the light in the same way.
Reflecting a milky or pearly light from the interior; having an opaline play of colors.
Adjective S.
having a play of lustrous rainbow-like colors; "an iridescent oil slick"; "nacreous (or pearlescent) clouds looking like mother-of-pearl"; "a milky opalescent (or opaline) luster"
a.
Reflecting a milky or pearly light from the interior;
having an opaline play of colors.
Opalescent
Reflecting a milky or pearly light from the interior; having an opaline play of colors.
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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