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Webster 1913 Edition
Iridal
I′ri-dal
(?; 277)
, Adj.
Of or pertaining to the iris or rainbow; prismatic;
as, the
. iridal
colorsWhewell.
Definition 2024
iridal
iridal
English
Adjective
iridal (comparative more iridal, superlative most iridal)
- (rare) Pertaining to a rainbow.
- (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.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 44: