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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pearly
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pearly gates
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
gate
▪ And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates.
▪ St Peter had opened the pearly gates and St John Ogilvie had prodded home the penalty.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the pearly gates
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a pearly white fish
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates.
▪ Eventually all the shelled forms except the pearly nautilus disappeared.
▪ He exulted and from the pocket of his long robe withdrew a self-powered Atomo bulb that filled the room with pearly light.
▪ He fills the temple with a pearly, internal light at a gesture.
▪ It was still misty but the sun was gathering strength and the mist had acquired a pearly hue promising better things.
▪ The basic colouration is greyish-blue to green, with a pearly iridescence and blue to green iridescent patches on the scales.
▪ The second celestial apparition was a faint, pearly cone of light slanting up the eastern sky.
▪ The well-shaped nails were a pearly plum colour this time.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pearly

Pearly \Pearl"y\, a.

  1. Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells.
    --Milton.

  2. Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pearly

early 15c., from pearl + -y (2). Related: Pearliness. The pearly gates of Heaven (or the New Jerusalem) are attested by 1708, from Rev. 21:21.

Wiktionary
pearly

a. Of a pale greyish white colour, tinted with blue. n. 1 (context uncountable uncommon dated English) A pale greyish white colour, tinted with blue. 2 (context countable British especially in plural English) tooth

WordNet
pearly
  1. adj. a white the color of pearls [syn: pearly-white]

  2. [also: pearliest, pearlier]

pearly
  1. n. informal terms for a human `tooth' [syn: chopper]

  2. [also: pearliest, pearlier]

Wikipedia
Pearly

Pearly or pearlie may refer to:

  • Pearl-looking
  • "Pearly", a Space: Above and Beyond episode
  • Pearlie, animated TV series
  • Pearly, Virginia, a community in the United States
  • Pearly Beach, village in Overberg District Municipality in the Western Cape Province of South Africa
  • " Pearly Shells", Hawaiian song
  • Pearly whites, slang for human teeth
  • Pearly gates, an informal name for the gateway to Heaven

Usage examples of "pearly".

There were shimmering gleams of pearly white and ivory yellow, under beardy trails of moss old as the marble out of which it grew.

She reached out to him, smiling, and pressed the pearly homuncule into his own breast.

Peri floating easefully out of some far-off sphere of sky-wonders,--an aerial Maiden-Shape glided into the full lustre of the varying light,--a dancer, nude save for the pearly glistening veil that was carelessly cast about her dainty limbs, her white arms and delicate ankles being adorned with circlets of tiny, golden bells, which kept up a melodious jinglejangle as she moved.

He then had every pearly phrase redrafted by some idiot until its impact was killed.

It was a natural break in the wall of the cavern that had been trimmed into a keyhole arch shape and then subsequently covered with the pearly stalagmitic stuff.

Of burnished metal, fretted and embossed With all the marvelous story of her birth Painted in prodigal splendor of rich tincts, And carved by heavenly artists,--crystal seas, And long-haired Nereids in their pearly shells, And all the wonder of her lucent limbs Sphered in a vermeil mist.

The most spectacular of Cretaceous mollusks were the ammonites, chambered cephalopods related to the modern pearly nautilus and, more distantly, to squid and octopus.

Several gobs of pearly semen clung to the cagework behind him where it had rebounded from her.

In the east appeared a faint pearly flush that by degrees spread itself over the whole arch of the sky and was welcomed by the barking of monkeys and the call of birds in the depths of the dew-steeped forest.

In the way the girl wailed forth some of her Tennysonian lines he detected a faint gleam as of something pearly in deep water.

It had been a long time since Willesden had seen a funeral like that of Pearly Gates.

I am subject to tell a tale make your cock stand up and yipe for the pink pearly way of young cunt or the lovely brown mucous-covered palpitating tune of the young boy-ass play your cock like a recorder.

Despite his position Shah Zaman smiled like the Genie through his pearly beard and declared that Scheherazade was right to think love ephemeral.

Wednesday came to break the monotony of the days, and since it was a lovely summer morning Beatrice got into a rather nice silky two-piece in a pale pearly pink, brushed her hair into a shining chignon, thrust her feet into high-heeled sandals and got into the elderly Daimler beside her aunt.

There was nothing to be seen except the pearly whirl of the Galaxy below, the distant external firefly galaxies, the smoky yellow blobs of the kugelblitz.