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adjective, pearl·i·er, pearl·i·est.

like a pearl, especially in being white or lustrous; nacreous: her pearly teeth.

adorned with or abounding in pearls or mother-of-pearl.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English peerly. See pearl¹, -y¹

Related forms

pearl·i·ness, noun

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pearly (ˈpɜːlɪ)

—*adj* , pearlier, pearliest
1.	resembling a pearl, esp in lustre
2.	of the colour pearl; pale bluish-grey
3.	decorated with pearls or mother-of-pearl

—n , pearlier, pearliest, pearlies
4.	a London costermonger who wears on ceremonial occasions a traditional dress of dark clothes covered with pearl buttons
5.	(plural) the clothes or the buttons themselves

'pearliness

—n

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"There, too, I admired, though I did not gather, the cranberries, small waxen gems, pendants of the meadow grass, pearly and red, which the farmer plucks with an ugly rake, leaving the smooth meadow in a snarl, heedlessly measuring them by the bushel and the dollar only, and sells the spoils of the meads to Boston and New York; destined to be jammed, to satisfy the tastes of lovers of Nature there. So butchers rake the tongues of bison out of the prarie grass, regardless of the torn and drooping plant."

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