The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chatoyant \Cha*toy"ant\, n. (Min.) A hard stone, as the cat's-eye, which presents on a polished surface, and in the interior, an undulating or wary light.
Chatoyant \Cha*toy"ant\, a. [F., p. pr. of chatoyer to be chatoyant, fr. chat cat.] (Min.) Having a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat's eye in the dark.
Wiktionary
a. (context jewelry English) Having a certain optical reflectance effect, which can be likened to the sheen of a spool of silk. n. (context mineral English) A hard stone, such as the cat's-eye, which presents on a polished surface, and in the interior, an undulating or wavy light.
WordNet
adj. varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles; "changeable taffeta"; "chatoyant (or shot) silk"; "a dragonfly hovered, vibrating and iridescent" [syn: changeable, iridescent, shot]
Usage examples of "chatoyant".
She gasped at the chatoyant glow that came from his wolf-like amber eyes, and would have fallen had he not rushed forward, catching her easily in his arms.
The reflected sunlight from outside shone on the pale gold heavy falling swerve of her hair, in the depths of the chatoyant grey eyes, and on the glint of white teeth between the luxurious lips dial were half open with her question.
Fu-Manchu, to see the gleaming, chatoyant eyes, greenly terrible, as they sought to pierce the gloom.
But what first claimed the sight, like an ensign on a masked man's shield, was a chatoyant quality of his youthful olive skin, a silvery gleaming that turned one's thoughts to fishes’ bellies and leprosy—that, and a certain familiarity.