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chatoyant, a. (and n.) rare.|ʃatwajɑ̃, ʃəˈtɔɪənt|
[F. chatoyant in same sense, pres. pple. of chatoyer (on L. type caticā-re): cf. flamboyant. Littré gives chatoyer in dial. of Berry, as ‘to stroke or caress as a cat, to pet’.]
A. adj. Having a changeable, undulating, or floating lustre, like that of a cat's eye in the dark.
1816Cleaveland Min. 257 This mineral has a crystalline structure..It is slightly chatoyant. 1859Tennent Ceylon 38 The ‘Moon-stone’ a variety of pearly adularia presenting chatoyant rays when simply polished. 1860O. W. Holmes Elsie V. (1887) 79 The..chatoyant..sea of..silks and satins. 1962Listener 4 Jan. 29/1 Repetition silts them Maturing in a silence Chatoyant and productive.
B. n.
1. Chatoyant quality or lustre. [So in Fr.]
1798Phil. Trans. LXXXVIII. 414 The chatoyant or play of light, on these dark crystals, is very remarkable.
2. A chatoyant stone, as the Cat's eye, the surface and interior of which, when cut and polished, exhibit a floating lustre. |