Definition of "fish-scale" [fish-scale]

• A scale of a fish. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Oh, and now the sky has changed, to gray smoke over higher clouds still lit fish-scale silver from below, and through those layers chips of robin's-egg blue."
• "The skin below her right eye is fish-scale green and blue."
• "Maybe Ms. Ensler is not crazy about carved oakleaves and fish-scale checkering in stocks, on which Austrians dote."