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nacre|ˈneɪkə(r)|
Also 6 nackre, 7 nacker, nakre, 7–9 naker.
[a. F. nacre, † nacle (1416; cf. med.L. nacrum, 1347 in Du Cange) = Sp. and Pg. nacar, It. nacchera, † naccara, med.L. nacchara, nacara (1295 in Du Cange), of uncertain, but prob. Oriental, origin.]
1. The pinna or sea-pen, or other shell-fish yielding mother-of-pearl.
1598Florio, Naccare{ddd}Also the shell-fish which some call a nackre. 1601Holland Pliny ix. xlii. I. 261 The Nacre also called Pinnæ, is of the kind of Shell-fishes. It is..never without a companion,..which beareth the Nacre companie. 1658Hoole tr. Comenius' Orb. Sensual. (ed. 12) 46 The Oyster affordeth sweet meat,..the Naker, pearls. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. ii. 162 Every one of these Barks hath Men for Diving to the bottom of the Sea and picking up the Shell-fish or Nacres. 1727Philip Quarll 188 Polishing the Rest of his Shells, some, as fine as tho' they had been Nakers of Pearl. 1777Pennant Brit. Zool. IV. 97 Pinna, nacre; its animal a Slug. 1834Good Bk. Nature II. 17 Among the more elegant of this division is the nacre, pinna, or sea-pen.
attrib.1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. iii. (Lawe) 699 Tis a Valley paved (else) With golden sands, with Pearle, and Nacre-shels.
2. A smooth, shining, iridescent substance forming the inner layer in many shells; mother-of-pearl.
1718Ozell tr. Tournefort's Voy. I. 178 It is a shining Naker within. 1755Gentl. Mag. XXV. 32 Orient, the fine naker, or mother of pearle colour, which is seen on some shells. 1799Hatchett in Phil. Trans. LXXXIX. 316 Of the shells composed of nacre or mother of pearl, I selected the oyster. 1811Pinkerton Petral. I. 414 These exquisite colours arise from the laminar naker, or what is commonly called mother-of-pearl, of a kind of nautilus. 1862Ansted Channel Isl. iv. xxii. 510 The iridescent nacre of the shell was used in this way. 1888Contemp. Rev. May 690 A fine pearl is worth from one to eight pounds sterling a grain according to size, colour, and ‘nacre’.
attrib.1895C. Holland Jap. Wife 61 A flat shell, with lovely mother-of-pearl tints on its nacre hollow.
Hence ˈnacred a., faced with, having the hues of, nacre; ˈnacreness, the qualities of nacre.
1755Gentl. Mag. XXV. 82 This shell..is finely nakered within. 1845Macgillivray Conchol. Text-bk. 224 Nacred, pearly, perlaceous. 1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 169 Cognizing nacreness as the abstract nature of the thing beheld. |