Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
rainbow ; displaying a range ofcolours .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A water bird jittered a rainbowlike haze across the front lawn.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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A water bird jittered a rainbowlike haze across the front lawn.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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A water bird jittered a rainbowlike haze across the front lawn.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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A water bird jittered a rainbowlike haze across the front lawn.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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"She claimed that you walked to the center of the room, became two-dimensional, and just faded away, like the old soldier that you are, with a rainbowlike accomnaniment."
The Hand of Oberon Zelazny, Roger 1976
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With these works as brackets, the textilelike qualities of Alfred Jensen's thick-surfaced grids and rainbowlike concentric ovals come to the fore.
NYT > Home Page By ROBERTA SMITH 2011
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The word "iridescent" for "having or showing shifting changes in color or an interplay of rainbowlike colors" comes from this root.
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The rainbowlike arcs represent references from a chapter in one book to a chapter in another.
TreeHugger 2008
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