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Definition of Chatoyant
1. Adjective. Varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles. "A dragonfly hovered, vibrating and iridescent"
Similar to: Colorful, Colourful
Derivative terms: Changeableness, Iridesce, Iridescence
Definition of Chatoyant
1. a. Having a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat's eye in the dark.
2. n. A hard stone, as the cat's-eye, which presents on a polished surface, and in the interior, an undulating or wary light.
Definition of Chatoyant
1. Adjective. (context: jewelry) Having a certain optical reflectance effect, which can be likened to the sheen of a spool of silk. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chatoyant
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chatoyant
Literary usage of Chatoyant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Practical Assaying by John Mitchell (1868)
"... COMPARATIVE TABLE OF TUB WEIGHTS OF STONES POSSESSING A PLAY OF COLOURS (chatoyant).
... chatoyant ..."
2. An elementary treatise on mineralogy and geology: being an introduction to by Parker Cleaveland (1816)
"Quartz agathe chatoyant. Hint. Quartz liya- lin chatoyant. ... BROCHANT. •f Hence
its name ; and hence the origin of the French term, chatoyant. ..."
3. Religious Truth, Illustrated from Science, in Addresses and Sermons on by Edward Hitchcock (1857)
"My eighth symbol will illustrate a chatoyant character. A chatoyant mineral
exhibits a beautiful play of prismatic colors as it is turned around. ..."
4. A French-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"... vi be chatoyant. châtrer, vt castrate; prune. chaud, a. hot; warm; fresh,
recent; expensive. — m. heat. à —, with the use of heat, in a heated state, ..."
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