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countable and uncountable, plural nacres
(obsolete) A shellfish which contains mother-of-pearl. quotations
The shell-fish called a Nacre, liveth even so with the Pinnotere, which is a little creature like unto a Crabfish […].
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]
A pearly substance made mainly of stacked layers of aragonite and organic matter which lines the interior of many shells; mother-of-pearl. quotations examples
On a little table of dark perfumed wood thickly encrusted with nacre, […] was lying a note from Lord Henry, and beside it was a book bound in yellow paper, the cover slightly torn and the edges soiled.
1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray