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opaline, a. and n.|ˈəʊpəlɪn, -aɪn|
[f. opal + -ine, after adamantine, amethystine, crystalline, etc. Cf. F. opalin (1801 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
A. adj. Having the colour or iridescence of an opal; opalescent. Also, resembling opal other than in colour.
1784Cook's 3rd Voy. iii. xiii. II. 257 Assuming various tints of blue, from a pale sapphirine, to a deep violet colour; which were frequently mixed with a ruby, or opaline redness. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. 283 Opaline,.. a blueish white reflecting the prismatic colours. 1831R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 626 By boiling, they lose their transparency, and acquire an opaque opaline tint. 1894P. Pinkerton Adriatica, Song for Venice, Now shall Venezia shine In waters opaline. 1962C. Frondel Dana's Syst. Min. (ed. 7) III. 296 Common opal. In general, opal without a play of colour... Includes..rock-forming opaline silica.
B. n.
1. ‘A term sometimes applied to a variety of yellow chalcedony which presents an opaline semi-opacity’ (Westropp).
1861C. W. King Antique Gems i. 8 When the stone [Calcedony] has a bright tinge of yellow, it is named the Opaline. 1874Westropp Gems 43.
2. A semi-translucent glass, whitened by the addition of phosphate of lime, peroxide of tin, or other ingredient; also called milk-glass. Also, translucent glass of a colour other than white.
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1561/1. 1964 [see make-up mirror s.v. make-up 6]. 1970G. Savage Dict. Antiques 296/1 The manufacture of opaline was at its most popular between 1840 and 1870, after which it declined in popularity.
3. An opaline colour, surface, or expanse.
1871R. Ellis Catullus lxiii. 88 When he saw the sexless Attis by the seas' level opaline. 1893Mrs. C. Praed Outlaw & Lawmaker II. v. 33 In some places the pool was covered with a strange opaline. |