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- noun
chatoyancy
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Examples
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_chatoyance_; for those "sports" and eccentrics who, among our lower classes, are centrifugal -- perpetually tending to diverge in this or that direction.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910
knitandpurl commented on the word chatoyance
"And where once the crowds were mere pent peacocks,
Twiddling half chatoyances, shimmers in the dark,
Now only the dancers remain."
"Aubade: Vol. 2: The Underground Sessions" in "The Ground" by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
April 27, 2014