nacre

See also: nacré

English

WOTD – 25 October 2015

Alternative forms

• nacker (obsolete)
• naker (obsolete)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French nacre, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin nacchara, perhaps from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic نَقَّارَة (naqqāra) (see nacarat for more).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈneɪkə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈneɪkəɹ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪkə(ɹ)

Noun

nacre (plural nacres)

Nacre

1. (obsolete) A shellfish which contains mother-of-pearl. [16th-19th c.]
   • Template:RQ:Florio Montaigne Essayes
2. A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells; mother-of-pearl. [from 17th c.]
   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray:

     On a little table of dark perfumed wood thickly encrusted with nacre, […] was lying a note from Lord Henry, and beside it was a book bound in yellow paper, the cover slightly torn and the edges soiled.

Derived terms

• nacrous

Translations

pearly substance on the interior of shells — see mother-of-pearl

Anagrams

• Caren, Cerna, Crane, Rance, caner, caren, crane, crena, rance, recan

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nakʁ/

Noun

nacre f (plural nacres)

1. mother-of-pearl (the hard pearly inner layer of certain mollusk shells)

Verb

nacre

1. first-person singular present indicative of nacrer
2. third-person singular present indicative of nacrer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of nacrer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of nacrer
5. second-person singular imperative of nacrer

Further reading

• “nacre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• ancre, ancré, cerna, crâne, écran, encra, rance

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Middle French

Noun

nacre m (plural nacres)

1. nacre (shellfish)
   • 1608, Histoire du monde... mis en français par Antoine Dupinet, Chapter 42, page 490

     Les Nacres aussi sont de la race des poissons à escailles.