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Seed pearl   /sid pərl/   Listen
Seed pearl

noun
1.
A small imperfect pearl.






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"Seed pearl" Quotes from Famous Books



... thousand times more real, individual, and powerful than in the other portraits), seated stiffly in a high-backed chair, sustained, as it were, almost rigid, by the stiff brocade of skirts and stomacher, stiffer for plaques of embroidered silver flowers and rows of seed pearl. The dress is, with its mixture of silver and pearl, of a strange dull red, a wicked poppy-juice color, against which the flesh of the long, narrow hands with fringe-like fingers; of the long slender neck, and the face with bared forehead, looks white ...
— Hauntings • Vernon Lee



Words linked to "Seed pearl" :   pearl



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