Chatoyance or Chatoyancy
–adjective | 1. | changing in luster or color: chatoyant silk. |
| 2. | Jewelry. reflecting a single streak of light when cut in a cabochon. |
–noun | 3. | Jewelry. a cabochon-cut gemstone having this reflected streak, as a chrysoberyl cat's-eye. |
[Origin:
1790–1800; chatoyer to change luster like a cat's eye, equiv. to
chat cat1 +
-oy- v. suffix +
-ant -ant
]
chatoyance. Dictionary.com.
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/chatoyance (accessed: September 03, 2008).
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