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pearl

/pɝl/ sustantivo B2

En español: parisienne, perla

  1. Nacre; mother-of-pearl. (countable, uncountable)
  2. A white color inspired by the shade of pearls. (countable, uncountable)
  3. Something precious. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)
  4. A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing liquid for, e.g., medicinal application. (countable, uncountable)
  5. A whitish speck or film on the eye. (countable, uncountable)
  6. A fish allied to the turbot; the brill. (countable, uncountable)
  7. A light-colored tern. (countable, uncountable)
  8. One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler. (countable, uncountable)

Plural pearls

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Can I have some of those pearl beads off the old pincushion in the garret to make myself a ring?
Anne of Green Gables, p. 109 · C1
Afar in the southwest was the great shimmering, pearl-like sparkle of an evening star in a sky that was pale golden and ethereal rose over gleaming white spaces and dark glens of spruce.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 141 · C1
Lawrence Gulf seemed to rim in the splendor like a huge bowl of pearl and sapphire brimmed with wine and fire.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 149 · C1
When Prissy Andrews, attired in a new pink-silk waist with a string of pearls about her smooth white throat and real carnations in her hair--rumor whispered that the master had sent all the way to town for them for her--“climbed the slimy ladder, dark without one ray of light,” Anne shivered in luxurious sympathy; when the choir sang “Far Above the Gentle Daisies” Anne gazed at the ceiling as if it were frescoed with angels; when Sam Sloane proceeded to explain and illustrate “How Sockery Set a Hen” Anne laughed until people sitting near her laughed too, more out of sympathy with her than with amusement at a selection that was rather threadbare even in Avonlea; and when Mr.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 150 · C1

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