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irisate en · ADJ

Etymology

From iris + -ate (participial adjective-forming suffix). Compare French irisé and irisated.

Meanings

1. Iridescent.
   • In place of the grey clouds, which passed and passed again, darkening thoughts and things alike, is an immense void, profound and clear, which this evening is of an irisate blue, of a blue turning, on the horizon, to the green of aqua-marina. 1927, Pierre Loti, Morocco, page 169:
   • One might travel far without ever having ever an opportunity again to see such a confusion of mists, winds, sunshine, moonlight and showers, and irisate colour effects as in Melville Dewey's confuse and effeminate pictures. 1901, Sadakichi Hartmann, A History of American Art, page 56:
   • I have never been able, any more than Sir D. Brewster and other observers, to detect the variegated or irisate colours mentioned by Newton, neither on myself nor in the numerous cases where I have applied compression. 1849, The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, page 340:

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Synonyms

irisated