ophidian

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The jeweler’s earliest snake-inspired pieces tended toward abstraction, referencing ophidian sinuousness by way of a corrugated gold bracelet — based on the articulated flex of gas piping — that slithered up the wrist.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2022

An obnoxious ophidian invaded a soccer pitch in Guatemala, delaying a game between Nueva Concepcion and Municipal.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2022

If the collections shown on the seventh day of Paris fashion week demonstrate anything for , keep your use of pelts, hides and skins to a minimum — particularly of those ophidian.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2011

And for the lady of devastating chic and ophidian fascination, who looks forward to penthouses rather than backward at palazzos, is the Cadillac-Fleetwood Art Moderne, a sleek transformable cabriolet in aluminum, black, copper, snakewood.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had the straight, hard, ophidian line concealing the eyelid, which gives such a peculiar strength to the direct gaze of a pair of dark eyes.

From The Desert and the Sown by Foote, Mary Hallock