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   Pearl

   /pərl/

   

   noun

   • 1. a hard, lustrous spherical mass, typically white or bluish-gray, formed within the shell of a pearl oyster or other bivalve mollusk and highly prized as a gem: "a linen garment decorated with pearls"
   • ▪ an artificial imitation of a pearl.
   • ▪ a necklace of pearls: "tweeds look traditional teamed with twinset and pearls"
   • ▪ something resembling a pearl: "the sweat stood in pearls along his forehead"
   • ▪ short for mother-of-pearl
   • ▪ a very pale bluish gray or white like the color of a pearl: "her dress was a lovely pearl gray"
   • 2. a person or thing of great rarity and worth: "these things are pearls amidst the everyday"

   verb

   • 1. form drops resembling pearls: "raindrops pearled on water-soaked windowpanes"
   • ▪ make bluish-gray or white in a way reminscent of a pearl: "sunset pearled the sky above the hills"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French perle, perhaps based on Latin perna ‘leg’, extended to denote a leg-of-mutton-shaped bivalve.

   Derivatives

   • 1. pearler noun

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