resembling or made to resemble mother-of-pearl; iridescent
pearlized buttons
Word origin
[1950–55; pearl1 + -ize + -ed2]This word is first recorded in the period 1950–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Common Market, action painting, bleep, point-of-sale, speech recognition-ed is a suffix forming the past participle of weak verbs (he had crossed the river), and of participial adjectives indicating a condition or quality resulting fromthe action of the verb (inflated balloons). Other words that use the affix -ed include: classified, integrated, limited, truncated, unattended