Nacre

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·add. ·adj Having the peculiar iridescence of nacre, or mother-of-pearl, or an iridescence resembling it; as, nacre ware.

II. Nacre ·noun A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells, and is most perfect in the mother-of-pearl. [Written also nacker and naker.] ·see Pearl, and Mother-of-pearl.

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