rainbow fish

noun

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Looking down beneath the clear blue waters Dolores descries the rainbow fish and claps her hands at its beauty.

Wherever there was shadow this pale glimmer painted it with ethereal colours, like the backs of rainbow fish moving under water.

That exquisite hue and transparency of submarine day, and these shoals of rainbow fish have not enraptured me again.

That exquisite hue and transparency of submarine day, and these shoals of rainbow fish, have not enraptured me again.

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