- artificial pearls
- false pearls, beads which are designed and colored to look like pearls
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
artificial pearls
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blick — Bleak Bleak, n. [From {Bleak}, a., cf. {Blay}.] (Zo[ o]l.) A small European river fish ({Leuciscus alburnus}), of the family Cyprinid[ae]; the blay. [Written also {blick}.] [1913 Webster] Note: The silvery pigment lining the scales of the bleak… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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