Chatoyant Definition
shə-toiənt
adjective
Having a changeable color or luster.
Chatoyant silk.
Webster's New World
(jewelry) Having a certain optical reflectance effect, which can be likened to the sheen of a spool of silk.
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noun
A gem or polished stone, as the cat's-eye, with such luster.
Webster's New World
Origin of Chatoyant
French present participle of chatoyer to shimmer like cats' eyes from chat cat from Vulgar Latin cattus perhaps of African origin
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From French chatoyant, present participle of chatoyer, from chat (“cat”) (because of the reflective qualities of a cat's eye).
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