Lexicographical Neighbors of Nacred
Literary usage of Nacred
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North America: With a List of the South by Hermann August Hagen (1862)
"Under side of the secondaries purple-brown, deeper towards the base, which is
marked with three small nacred spots ; a little before the middle is another ..."
2. The Conchologist's Text-book: Embracing the Arrangements of Lamarck and by Thomas Brown (1835)
"... longitudinally striated; inside white, slightly reflecting a nacred hue.
Length, half an inch; breadth, an inch. Inhabits the sea at Tenby in Wales. ..."
3. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1832)
"Pearls, as Mr. Gray justly observes, are merely the internal nacred coat of the
shell, which has been forced, by some extraneous cause, ..."
4. The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants by Louis Figuier (1869)
"229), from the Chinese SSL<, is green without, and brilliantly nacred within; it
is vulgarly blown as the paroquet. ..."
5. The Natural History of the Order Cetacea: And the Oceanic Inhabitants of the by Henry William Dewhurst (1834)
""Pearls, as Mr. Gray justly observes, are merely the internal nacred coat of the
shell, which has been forced, by some extraneous cause, ..."
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