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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
opalize . - adjective Converted into a form of
opal orchalcedony
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Examples
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Outside, where the broad Channel appeared, a berylline and opalized variegation of ripples, currents, deeps, and shallows, lay as fair under the sun as a New Jerusalem, the shores being of gleaming sand.
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This tree, four feet in diameter, of opalized wood, stands upright on the left side of the tunnel.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
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The green opalized kind is the most prized, and four pounds was demanded for a pair of pendants of this colour for earrings.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various
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A disc of bronze, supported upon a carven tripod, caught the light and challenged attention to its delicate traceries; and within its border of asps and goat's horns he saw cut in the dull metal a sphinx crucified upon an upright cross -- an exact facsimile of the device upon that strange opalized glass from some far-away island which he had lately noted in the window in Mrs. Hastings 'drawing-room.
Romance Island Zona Gale 1906
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The these children of the open air, whom even excess of alcohol could scarce injure permanently, betook themselves to the field-path; and as they went there moved onward with them, around the shadow of each one's hand, a circle of opalized light, formed by the moon's rays upon the glistening sheet of dew.
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Outside, where the broad Channel appeared, a berylline and opalized variegation of ripples, currents, deeps, and shallows, lay as fair under the sun as a New Jerusalem, the shores being of gleaming sand.
The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas Hardy 1884
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Then these children of the open air, whom even excess of alcohol could scarce injure permanently, betook themselves to the field-path; and as they went there moved onward with them, around the shadow of each one's head, a circle of opalized light, formed by the moon's rays upon the glistening sheet of dew.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884
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The opalized glass similarly decorated is Spanish.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Also on Bloom Studios is this lovely "opalized conchina" pendant.
Craft Gossip 2009
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