Betekenis van:
mother-of-pearl

mother-of-pearl
Zelfstandig naamwoord
  • het harde, zilverachtig glinsterende, in zeer fraaie kleuren spelende inwendige bekleedsel van de schelp van verscheidene oestersoorten
  • the iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell

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Voorbeeldzinnen

  1. Carvings from animal material such as ivory, bone, tortoise shell, horn, antlers, coral, mother-of-pearl
  2. Worked cultured pearls (excluding strung, mounted or set, mother of pearl)
  3. Worked ivory, bone, tortoiseshell, horn, antlers, coral, mother-of-pearl and other animal carving material, and articles of these materials (including articles obtained by moulding):
  4. Worked ivory, bone, tortoiseshell, horn, antlers, coral, mother-of-pearl and other animal carving material, and articles of these materials (including articles obtained by moulding)
  5. These articles may be combined or set, for example, with natural or cultured pearls, precious or semiprecious stones, synthetic or reconstructed precious or semi-precious stones, tortoise shell, mother-of-pearl, ivory, natural or reconstituted amber, jet or coral.