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/sˈɪlvər-skeɪld/ Listen

Silver-scaled

adjective

Having the body covered or partially covered with silver-colored scales.

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"Silver-scaled" Quotes from Famous Books

... crown. Richard wore a rose-colored tunic of satin, belted with jewels. A mantle of silk tissue, brocaded in silver crescents, fell from his shoulders, and on his head was a scarlet brocaded cap. By his side hung a Damascus blade in a silver-scaled sheath. Before the king was led his beautiful Cyprian steed, Favelle, gorgeously caparisoned, and bitted with gold, the saddle adorned with ...

— With Spurs of Gold - Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds • Frances Nimmo Greene

... whom I speak had, dressed in a new suit of blue serge, a new cap cocked awry, and a pair of brilliantly polished boots, been standing at the edge of the wharf, and gazing at the brown waters of the Kama, the emerald expanse beyond them and the silver-scaled pools left behind by the tide. Until, as the sun had begun to sink towards the marshes on the other side of the river, and to become dissolved into streaks, the man had smiled with increasing rapture, and his face had glowed with creasing eagerness ...

— Through Russia • Maxim Gorky