mother-of-pearln.int.adj.

Brit.

/ˌmʌdərəvˈpəːl/, U.S.

/ˌməðərə(v)ˈpərl/

Forms: see mother n.¹, of prep., and pearl n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; probably modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: mother n.¹, of prep., pearl n.¹

Etymology: < mother n.¹ + of prep. + pearl n.¹, probably after post-classical Latin mater perlarum pearl oyster (1481 in a Polish source), but compare earlier mother pearl n. Compare Middle Dutch moer van peerle pearl oyster, mother-of-pearl, Spanish madre de perla pearl oyster (1611), French mère de perle mother-of-pearl (1812; also †mère des perles (1765), †mère de perles (1768), both in sense ‘pearl oyster’).

A. n.

1. A smooth, shining, iridescent substance forming the inner layer of the shell of some molluscs, esp. oysters and abalones, and used in ornamentation; = nacre n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > pearl > [noun] > mother-of-pearl

mother pearlc1500

mother-of-pearl1547

nacre1689

burgaudine1753

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > bivalves > that produces mother of pearl > mother of pearl

mother-of-pearl1547

pearl shell1614

nacre1689

1547 Inventory in MS Harl. 1419A f. 130^v A Table of mother of perle in roundells of the birthe and passion of christe.

1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia i. sig. C5 A peece of pollisht mother of pearle's the spoone.

1605 J. Rosier True Relation Voy. G. Waymouth sig. B3 If we had had a Drag, no doubt we had found some [pearls] of great valew, seeing these did certainly shew, that heere they were bred: the shels all glistering with mother of Pearle.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 37 They sell..Scrutores or Cabbinets of mother of Pearle.

1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 389 A rich Pax of Mother of Pearle.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. viii. 218 They saw..great heaps of shells of fine mother of pearl scattered up and down.

1799 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 89 316 Of the shells composed of nacre or mother of pearl, I selected the oyster.

1827 Gentleman's Mag. 97 ii. 70 A screen, curiously wrought with mother-o'-pearl.

1852 J. L. Motley Let. 13 Sept. in Corr. (1889) I. v. 138 Cabinets and caskets of every age, of mother-of-pearl, agate, amber, ivory, buhl and ormolu.

1889 ‘J. S. Winter’ Mrs. Bob (1891) 4 The useful and highly-ornamental mother-o'-pearl.

1931 E. G. Boulenger Fishes i. 35 [A blenny] may fall a victim to the bivalve's habit of instinctively covering over any irritating foreign body with a layer of mother-of-pearl.

1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes i. i. 21 He reached a long arm for a cigarette from a small satinwood box inlaid with mother-of-pearl.

1987 Asian Art 1 44 Floral scroll designs executed in fine, thin pieces of mother-of-pearl cover the sides of the boxes.

2. A shellfish yielding mother-of-pearl. Cf. nacre n. 1. Also mother-of-pearl shell, mother-of-pearl oyster.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > bivalves > that produces mother of pearl

mother pearl1593

nacre1598

mother-of-pearl1601

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 255 The shell that is the mother of Pearle [Fr. la mere perle].

1658 tr. G. della Porta Nat. Magick ix. xii. 241 There are..shells, we call the Mothers of pearl.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 209 Which..may hint us the reason of that so much admired appearance..in mother of Pearl-shells.

1703 J. Petiver Musei Petiveriani ix-x. 81 The Sea-Ear, Mother of Pearl, and by some Normans or Norman Shell.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 610/1 The margaritiferus, or pearl-bearing mussel... This is the mater perlarum of Rumphius, or mother of pearl shell.

1802 Brookes' Gazetteer (ed. 12) at Pelew Isl. The best knives are made of a piece of the large mother-of-pearl oyster.

1852 H. W. Dulcken tr. I. L. Pfeiffer Visit Holy Land, Egypt, & Italy xvi. 257 I saw whole cargoes of mother-of-pearl shells carried away.

1864 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 588/2 Mother of pearl, the shells of the large bivalve mollusc Meleagrina margaritifera.

1956 E. Gunther tr. A. Krause Tlingit Indians vi. 127 Pieces of mother of pearl (haliotis)..come from the south.

1999 E. M. Beekman tr. G. E. Rumphius Amboinese Curiosity Cabinet ii. xxxvii. 220 The 9th kind..is known to us as the Mother-of-Pearl Shell: I saw one of these in Dr. d'Aquet's Cabinet, about a foot across.

†3. Perhaps: = nacrite n. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1794 Guthrie's New Syst. Mod. Geogr. (1st U.S. ed.) I. 114 The bowels of the earth abound with..mother-of-pearl, and some other productions of the mineral kingdom.

4. = mother-of-pearl moth n. at Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > member of family Crambidae

grass moth1734

veneer1819

mother-of-pearl1850

1850 J. F. Stephens Catal. Lepidoptera 240 Botys verticalis. The Mother-of-Pearl.

1850 J. F. Stephens Catal. Lepidoptera 241 Botys perpendicularis. The Scarce Mother-of-Pearl.

1968 J. Burton Oxf. Bk. Insects 118/2 Mother-of-Pearl (Pleuroptya ruralis). Another common moth throughout the British Isles.

2001 Entomologist's Rec. 113 82 (title) A further late record of the Mother of Pearl Pleuroptya ruralis.

5. A colour or lustre similar to that of mother-of-pearl.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [noun] > pearl grey

pearl1600

pearl colour1607

pearl grey1705

grey1931

mother-of-pearl1988

1988 N. Stimson Flying Pigs (1989) 26 Wives polish brass and silver plate To a gleaming mother-of-pearl.

1989 B. M. Gill Dying to meet You (BNC) 155 The sky was darkening into a grey mother-of-pearl.

B. int.

† Expressing surprise, disbelief, dismay, etc. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.Probably euphemistic for Mother of God and similar oaths, although evidence for these is not recorded until the 18th cent. (see mother n.¹ 5).

ΚΠ

a1626 W. Rowley New Wonder (1632) i. i. 4 Mother a pearle, woman, shew your husband the cause.

C. adj. (attributive).

1. Made of or containing mother-of-pearl; adorned or inlaid with mother-of-pearl.

ΚΠ

1648 W. L. Newes from Turkie 17 He came just against him (hee being set upon an Ivorie and mother of Pearle Couch, the seates being lined with Lusin Furres).

1766 N.-Y. Mercury 3 Mar. (advt.) Lost, or left on one of the Pews in the Presbyterian Meeting House, an oval Silver Snuff-Box, with a Mother-o'pearl Top, mark'd with the letters T.G.C.

1802 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 8 The..angles were taken with a mother-of-pearl micrometer.

1810 Sporting Mag. 35 293 A blue jacket with mother-of-pearl buttons on it.

1849 J. W. Carlyle Lett. (1883) II. 64 Button-hook with the mother-of-pearl handle.

1902 Daily Chron. 2 May 8/3 Mother-of-pearl paillettes are the latest sparklet introduced for the glorification of chiffon dresses.

1959 Times 21 Sept. 12/4 Her old family Limerick lace veil was held in place by a mother-of-pearl coronet.

1984 J. Wilcox Mod. Baptists xi. 69 Mrs Pickens opened a mother-of-pearl compact.

2. Reminiscent or characteristic of mother-of-pearl; spec. of the colour or lustre of mother-of-pearl; iridescent, nacreous. Cf. mother-of-pearl-coloured adj. at Compounds 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > variegation > iridescence > [adjective] > pearlescent

mother-of-pearl1749

pearlescent1926

pearlized1927

1749 B. Wilkes Eng. Moths & Butterflies 24 The Mother of Pearl moth. Nettles are the food of the Caterpillar.

1755 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 32/1 Orient, the fine naker, or mother of pearle colour, which is seen on some shells.

1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 229 The shells found in limestone strata are commonly entire; some preserve their internal mother of pearl gloss.

1849 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 139 400 Large flat crystals..exhibiting a great deal of a mother-of-pearl lustre.

1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 51 The shellfish its mother-o'-pearl tints.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 871 A peculiar white ‘mother-of-pearl’ tint.

1903 T. B. Aldrich Ponkapog Papers 4 It was a mother-of-pearl moon.

1983 Atlantic (Nexis) Aug. 96 Her body, so close to my hands, had a sheen, a mother-of-pearl luster.

1994 Antique Dealer & Collectors' Guide Nov. 23/1 The mother-of-pearl light of the isles of the west..captivated her.

1995 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 16 May An evening dress with layers and layers of silk net—20 or 30 of them in mother-of-pearl colors.

Compounds

C1.

a. Parasynthetic.

mother-of-pearl-coloured adj.

ΚΠ

1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 122 Whitish or mother of-Pearl coloured.

1992 SwissBusiness (Nexis) Nov. 60 Mother-of-pearl coloured dial with eleven roman numerals and minute scale.

2000 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 21 Dec. 5 She was lining the inside of a bowl she had painted with flowers in a mother-of-pearl-colored paint.

b. Instrumental.

† mother-of-pearl-cased adj. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1845 R. S. Surtees Hillingdon Hall II. xxii. 104 With gold mother-of-pearl-cased eye-glasses.

mother-of-pearl inlaid adj.

ΚΠ

1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxv. 243 Tripping across the room daintily to a little mother-of-pearl inlaid desk, she opened it with a silver key.

1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain ii. iii. 359 Hector Ernescliffe was enchanted at winning a beautiful mother-of-pearl inlaid workbox.

1955 S. Spender Coll. Poems 1928–53 143 The walls fall, tearing down The mother-of-pearl inlaid interior.

2001 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 26 May 4 A small 19th century papier mache stationery box, with a floral mother of pearl inlaid cover and sides.

C2.

mother-of-pearl cloud n. [after Norwegian perlemorsky (H. Mohn 1893, in Forhandl. i Vidensk.-Selsk. i Christiania 1)] Meteorology = nacreous cloud n.; cf. noctilucent adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [noun] > a cloud > other specific types of cloud

ice cloud1830

nacreous cloud1909

mother-of-pearl cloud1932

rotor cloud1954

wave cloud1959

1932 Q. Jrnl. Royal Meteorol. Soc. 58 307 The remarkable stratosphere clouds which the late Professor Mohn called mother-of-pearl clouds again appeared over Scandinavia several times during the months of January and February this year.

1957 F. H. Ludlam & R. S. Scorer Cloud Study 69 Mother of pearl clouds are rare. They have been seen most often in Norway (but occasionally also in Scotland, Iceland and Alaska), and then only in the months between November and March.

1996 Observatory 116 140 Once or twice you referred to luminescent clouds... I'm merely saying that they're essentially nothing new. Sturmer started studying them back in the 1920s, and then they were called ‘mother-of-pearl’ clouds.

mother-of-pearl moth n. a greyish-white pyralid moth, Pleuroptya ruralis, whose larvae feed on nettles; (formerly also) †any of several moths resembling or related to this moth (obsolete).

ΚΠ

1749Mother of Pearl moth [see sense C. 2].

1829 J. F. Stephens Systematic Catal. Brit. Insects ii. 165 Margaritia verticalis..Mother of Pearl M[oth].

1952 B. P. Beirne Brit. Pyralid & Plume Moths 136 Sylepta ruralis Scop. (verticalis Schiff.) (‘Mother-of-pearl Moth’)... This species is common wherever nettles grow throughout Great Britain and Ireland.

1975 Country Life 12 June 1567/1 [Among] insects that live or feed on nettles are..the caterpillars of the..spectacle, snout and mother-of-pearl moths.

mother-of-pearl oyster n. see sense A. 2.

mother-of-pearl work n. work done in mother-of-pearl; (Needlework) a kind of embroidery in which pieces of mother-of-pearl are sewn on velvet or silk; (also) a piece of such work.

ΚΠ

1846 Southern Q. Rev. Apr. 312 The pavement is strewed with curiosities from various holy places, such as rosaries, crosses, pictures, and a variety of mother of pearl work.

1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 351 Mother-of-Pearl Work.

1985 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 13 Dec. 1a 5/1 (caption) Sample of mother-of-pearl work at least 200 years old.

mother-of-pearl shell n. see sense A. 2.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mother-of-pearl
释义	mother-of-pearln.int.adj. Brit. /ˌmʌdərəvˈpəːl/, U.S. /ˌməðərə(v)ˈpərl/ Forms: see mother n.¹, of prep., and pearl n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; probably modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: mother n.¹, of prep., pearl n.¹ Etymology: < mother n.¹ + of prep. + pearl n.¹, probably after post-classical Latin mater perlarum pearl oyster (1481 in a Polish source), but compare earlier mother pearl n. Compare Middle Dutch moer van peerle pearl oyster, mother-of-pearl, Spanish madre de perla pearl oyster (1611), French mère de perle mother-of-pearl (1812; also †mère des perles (1765), †mère de perles (1768), both in sense ‘pearl oyster’). A. n. 1. A smooth, shining, iridescent substance forming the inner layer of the shell of some molluscs, esp. oysters and abalones, and used in ornamentation; = nacre n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > pearl > [noun] > mother-of-pearl mother pearlc1500 mother-of-pearl1547 nacre1689 burgaudine1753 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > bivalves > that produces mother of pearl > mother of pearl mother-of-pearl1547 pearl shell1614 nacre1689 1547 Inventory in MS Harl. 1419A f. 130^v A Table of mother of perle in roundells of the birthe and passion of christe. 1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia i. sig. C5 A peece of pollisht mother of pearle's the spoone. 1605 J. Rosier True Relation Voy. G. Waymouth sig. B3 If we had had a Drag, no doubt we had found some [pearls] of great valew, seeing these did certainly shew, that heere they were bred: the shels all glistering with mother of Pearle. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 37 They sell..Scrutores or Cabbinets of mother of Pearle. 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 389 A rich Pax of Mother of Pearle. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. viii. 218 They saw..great heaps of shells of fine mother of pearl scattered up and down. 1799 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 89 316 Of the shells composed of nacre or mother of pearl, I selected the oyster. 1827 Gentleman's Mag. 97 ii. 70 A screen, curiously wrought with mother-o'-pearl. 1852 J. L. Motley Let. 13 Sept. in Corr. (1889) I. v. 138 Cabinets and caskets of every age, of mother-of-pearl, agate, amber, ivory, buhl and ormolu. 1889 ‘J. S. Winter’ Mrs. Bob (1891) 4 The useful and highly-ornamental mother-o'-pearl. 1931 E. G. Boulenger Fishes i. 35 [A blenny] may fall a victim to the bivalve's habit of instinctively covering over any irritating foreign body with a layer of mother-of-pearl. 1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes i. i. 21 He reached a long arm for a cigarette from a small satinwood box inlaid with mother-of-pearl. 1987 Asian Art 1 44 Floral scroll designs executed in fine, thin pieces of mother-of-pearl cover the sides of the boxes. 2. A shellfish yielding mother-of-pearl. Cf. nacre n. 1. Also mother-of-pearl shell, mother-of-pearl oyster. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > bivalves > that produces mother of pearl mother pearl1593 nacre1598 mother-of-pearl1601 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 255 The shell that is the mother of Pearle [Fr. la mere perle]. 1658 tr. G. della Porta Nat. Magick ix. xii. 241 There are..shells, we call the Mothers of pearl. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 209 Which..may hint us the reason of that so much admired appearance..in mother of Pearl-shells. 1703 J. Petiver Musei Petiveriani ix-x. 81 The Sea-Ear, Mother of Pearl, and by some Normans or Norman Shell. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 610/1 The margaritiferus, or pearl-bearing mussel... This is the mater perlarum of Rumphius, or mother of pearl shell. 1802 Brookes' Gazetteer (ed. 12) at Pelew Isl. The best knives are made of a piece of the large mother-of-pearl oyster. 1852 H. W. Dulcken tr. I. L. Pfeiffer Visit Holy Land, Egypt, & Italy xvi. 257 I saw whole cargoes of mother-of-pearl shells carried away. 1864 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 588/2 Mother of pearl, the shells of the large bivalve mollusc Meleagrina margaritifera. 1956 E. Gunther tr. A. Krause Tlingit Indians vi. 127 Pieces of mother of pearl (haliotis)..come from the south. 1999 E. M. Beekman tr. G. E. Rumphius Amboinese Curiosity Cabinet ii. xxxvii. 220 The 9th kind..is known to us as the Mother-of-Pearl Shell: I saw one of these in Dr. d'Aquet's Cabinet, about a foot across. †3. Perhaps: = nacrite n. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1794 Guthrie's New Syst. Mod. Geogr. (1st U.S. ed.) I. 114 The bowels of the earth abound with..mother-of-pearl, and some other productions of the mineral kingdom. 4. = mother-of-pearl moth n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > member of family Crambidae grass moth1734 veneer1819 mother-of-pearl1850 1850 J. F. Stephens Catal. Lepidoptera 240 Botys verticalis. The Mother-of-Pearl. 1850 J. F. Stephens Catal. Lepidoptera 241 Botys perpendicularis. The Scarce Mother-of-Pearl. 1968 J. Burton Oxf. Bk. Insects 118/2 Mother-of-Pearl (Pleuroptya ruralis). Another common moth throughout the British Isles. 2001 Entomologist's Rec. 113 82 (title) A further late record of the Mother of Pearl Pleuroptya ruralis. 5. A colour or lustre similar to that of mother-of-pearl. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [noun] > pearl grey pearl1600 pearl colour1607 pearl grey1705 grey1931 mother-of-pearl1988 1988 N. Stimson Flying Pigs (1989) 26 Wives polish brass and silver plate To a gleaming mother-of-pearl. 1989 B. M. Gill Dying to meet You (BNC) 155 The sky was darkening into a grey mother-of-pearl. B. int. † Expressing surprise, disbelief, dismay, etc. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.Probably euphemistic for Mother of God and similar oaths, although evidence for these is not recorded until the 18th cent. (see mother n.¹ 5). ΚΠ a1626 W. Rowley New Wonder (1632) i. i. 4 Mother a pearle, woman, shew your husband the cause. C. adj. (attributive). 1. Made of or containing mother-of-pearl; adorned or inlaid with mother-of-pearl. ΚΠ 1648 W. L. Newes from Turkie 17 He came just against him (hee being set upon an Ivorie and mother of Pearle Couch, the seates being lined with Lusin Furres). 1766 N.-Y. Mercury 3 Mar. (advt.) Lost, or left on one of the Pews in the Presbyterian Meeting House, an oval Silver Snuff-Box, with a Mother-o'pearl Top, mark'd with the letters T.G.C. 1802 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 8 The..angles were taken with a mother-of-pearl micrometer. 1810 Sporting Mag. 35 293 A blue jacket with mother-of-pearl buttons on it. 1849 J. W. Carlyle Lett. (1883) II. 64 Button-hook with the mother-of-pearl handle. 1902 Daily Chron. 2 May 8/3 Mother-of-pearl paillettes are the latest sparklet introduced for the glorification of chiffon dresses. 1959 Times 21 Sept. 12/4 Her old family Limerick lace veil was held in place by a mother-of-pearl coronet. 1984 J. Wilcox Mod. Baptists xi. 69 Mrs Pickens opened a mother-of-pearl compact. 2. Reminiscent or characteristic of mother-of-pearl; spec. of the colour or lustre of mother-of-pearl; iridescent, nacreous. Cf. mother-of-pearl-coloured adj. at Compounds 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > iridescence > [adjective] > pearlescent mother-of-pearl1749 pearlescent1926 pearlized1927 1749 B. Wilkes Eng. Moths & Butterflies 24 The Mother of Pearl moth. Nettles are the food of the Caterpillar. 1755 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 32/1 Orient, the fine naker, or mother of pearle colour, which is seen on some shells. 1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 229 The shells found in limestone strata are commonly entire; some preserve their internal mother of pearl gloss. 1849 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 139 400 Large flat crystals..exhibiting a great deal of a mother-of-pearl lustre. 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 51 The shellfish its mother-o'-pearl tints. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 871 A peculiar white ‘mother-of-pearl’ tint. 1903 T. B. Aldrich Ponkapog Papers 4 It was a mother-of-pearl moon. 1983 Atlantic (Nexis) Aug. 96 Her body, so close to my hands, had a sheen, a mother-of-pearl luster. 1994 Antique Dealer & Collectors' Guide Nov. 23/1 The mother-of-pearl light of the isles of the west..captivated her. 1995 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 16 May An evening dress with layers and layers of silk net—20 or 30 of them in mother-of-pearl colors. Compounds C1. a. Parasynthetic. mother-of-pearl-coloured adj. ΚΠ 1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 122 Whitish or mother of-Pearl coloured. 1992 SwissBusiness (Nexis) Nov. 60 Mother-of-pearl coloured dial with eleven roman numerals and minute scale. 2000 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 21 Dec. 5 She was lining the inside of a bowl she had painted with flowers in a mother-of-pearl-colored paint. b. Instrumental. † mother-of-pearl-cased adj. Obsolete ΚΠ 1845 R. S. Surtees Hillingdon Hall II. xxii. 104 With gold mother-of-pearl-cased eye-glasses. mother-of-pearl inlaid adj. ΚΠ 1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxv. 243 Tripping across the room daintily to a little mother-of-pearl inlaid desk, she opened it with a silver key. 1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain ii. iii. 359 Hector Ernescliffe was enchanted at winning a beautiful mother-of-pearl inlaid workbox. 1955 S. Spender Coll. Poems 1928–53 143 The walls fall, tearing down The mother-of-pearl inlaid interior. 2001 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 26 May 4 A small 19th century papier mache stationery box, with a floral mother of pearl inlaid cover and sides. C2. mother-of-pearl cloud n. [after Norwegian perlemorsky (H. Mohn 1893, in Forhandl. i Vidensk.-Selsk. i Christiania 1)] Meteorology = nacreous cloud n.; cf. noctilucent adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [noun] > a cloud > other specific types of cloud ice cloud1830 nacreous cloud1909 mother-of-pearl cloud1932 rotor cloud1954 wave cloud1959 1932 Q. Jrnl. Royal Meteorol. Soc. 58 307 The remarkable stratosphere clouds which the late Professor Mohn called mother-of-pearl clouds again appeared over Scandinavia several times during the months of January and February this year. 1957 F. H. Ludlam & R. S. Scorer Cloud Study 69 Mother of pearl clouds are rare. They have been seen most often in Norway (but occasionally also in Scotland, Iceland and Alaska), and then only in the months between November and March. 1996 Observatory 116 140 Once or twice you referred to luminescent clouds... I'm merely saying that they're essentially nothing new. Sturmer started studying them back in the 1920s, and then they were called ‘mother-of-pearl’ clouds. mother-of-pearl moth n. a greyish-white pyralid moth, Pleuroptya ruralis, whose larvae feed on nettles; (formerly also) †any of several moths resembling or related to this moth (obsolete). ΚΠ 1749Mother of Pearl moth [see sense C. 2]. 1829 J. F. Stephens Systematic Catal. Brit. Insects ii. 165 Margaritia verticalis..Mother of Pearl M[oth]. 1952 B. P. Beirne Brit. Pyralid & Plume Moths 136 Sylepta ruralis Scop. (verticalis Schiff.) (‘Mother-of-pearl Moth’)... This species is common wherever nettles grow throughout Great Britain and Ireland. 1975 Country Life 12 June 1567/1 [Among] insects that live or feed on nettles are..the caterpillars of the..spectacle, snout and mother-of-pearl moths. mother-of-pearl oyster n. see sense A. 2. mother-of-pearl work n. work done in mother-of-pearl; (Needlework) a kind of embroidery in which pieces of mother-of-pearl are sewn on velvet or silk; (also) a piece of such work. ΚΠ 1846 Southern Q. Rev. Apr. 312 The pavement is strewed with curiosities from various holy places, such as rosaries, crosses, pictures, and a variety of mother of pearl work. 1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 351 Mother-of-Pearl Work. 1985 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 13 Dec. 1a 5/1 (caption) Sample of mother-of-pearl work at least 200 years old. mother-of-pearl shell n. see sense A. 2. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.int.adj.1547
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