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Webster 1913 Edition


Iridal

I′ri-dal

(?; 277)
,
Adj.
[L.
iris
,
iridis
, rainbow. See
Iris
.]
Of or pertaining to the iris or rainbow; prismatic;
as, the
iridal
colors
.
Whewell.

Definition 2024


iridal

iridal

English

Adjective

iridal (comparative more iridal, superlative most iridal)

  1. (rare) Pertaining to a rainbow.
  2. (chiefly medicine) Pertaining to the iris of the eye.
    • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 44:
      The iridal dark-brown of her serious eyes had the enigmatic opacity of an Oriental hypnotist's look (in a magazine's back-page advertisement) and seemed to be placed higher that usual so that between its lower rim and the moist lower lid a cradle crescent of white remained when she stared straight at you.