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es•sence d'o•ri•ent
Pronunciation: (es'uns dôr'ē-unt, -ent", dōr'-; Fr. e-säns dô ryän'), [key] Jewelry.
a preparation for coating glass beads to make imitation pearls, derived from the scales of fish, esp. of the bleak.
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