His clothes were apt to look oily and smell of eating-houses.

[…] overdressed young men of enigmatic appearance, with oily thick hair, shifty eyes, and hands covered with cheap rings, swaggered about smoking cigarettes and talking in loud, ostentatious voices.

‘He had an inflexible will beneath all that oily kindness which passed for spiritual […]’

Lustered (also called lusters, rainbows, oilies, and pearls).

But marbles are not only used to play games: they are also traded. In this market, the value of the different kinds of marbles (oilies, emperors, etc.) is determined by local supply and demand and not by the price of the marbles […]

Oily

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