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chatoyant [SHəˈtoiənt]

adjective

1. (gems) having a changeable luster or color with an undulating narrow band of white light
2. having a changeable color or luster

origin
French, from present participle of chatoyer to shine like a cat's eyes

examples
1. Either because they possessed a chatoyant quality of their own (as I had often suspected), or by reason of the light reflected through the open window, the green eyes gleamed upon me vividly like those of a giant cat.
The Devil Doctor Sax Rohmer 1921

2. The faint eery light that glowed in the stranger’s deep-set eyes was not the lambent flame seen in the chatoyant orbs of some night-prowling jungle beast.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931