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Hello, Elle!
If it is not in your edition of Chambers, I think you should email them to let them know, and kick up holy hell with them?

Hello, Malone...we won't talk about my edition of Chambers...ask Rusty!
Just checked in MY Collins tho'....."pearly" simply says "resembling a pearl"
I guess it all depends which editions we each have !

Hi, Rusty,
I am going to dig a deep hole in my garden....and guess what I am going to put in it............yes, my ill-fated edition of Chambers!
Seriously though, I do like Chambers generally, but there are definitely certain times when I could scream with frustration when dealing with this particular edition.
Hang on a minute though....... I haven't checked the list of 500 missing words..............
No, no "pearly" there either!
Johanna won her match. I see though that Heather Watson and Tara Moore both went out yesterday.
Which IOC meeting are you referring to?
Am I missing something I should know about?

Elle, I know you had problems (or concerns) about your edition of Chambers. As well as being in my 12th edition Chambers, 'Pearly' is in my 'revised 13th edition' (which lives upstairs). You are very unfortunate with the one you have!

Elle, stranger and stranger... Pearly is in the 12th, but not the 13th (if that's what you have) ... and then reappears in the Revised 13th edition! (My 12th has the greyed out words, my 13th has the reinstated, but not highlighted in grey, words.)

Putting your copy in a hole in the garden isn't the answer - a dictionary with 99% of the words is better than none!

Malone, I have checked again - I'm wondering If my eyesight is failing!_ but I have no reference to "pearly" as a noun.
It gives "pearly" as "like a pearl" or "nacreous", but that is all.
P.S. I wasn't really going to put my dictionary in a hole in the garden!

Although my Brewers does not show "pearly" on its own, under the heading "pearly king and queen" it mentions Henry Croft, the first pearly king and then goes on to say "on his death in 1930 some 400 "pearlies" followed his coffin to St Pancras cemetery"

Hello, Elle!
I was but teasing...I think!
I have the 10th and 11th editions and pearly/pearlies are in both.
Now, Anne Bradford has "pearly gates" under tooth/teeth?
Another mystery!
There is a big IOC meeting today.
Been planned for a while but not heard anything from it.
But....the head man in WADA tipped off Sergey Bubka about something or other, that he should not have. So....the plot thickens!

Elle, your experience makes me glad I didn't bother buying the 'ordinary' (problematic) 13th edition! I thought the only major problem with that one was the erroneous removal of the 'special' words - I didn't realise some definitions might have (temporarily) disappeared too.

Hello, Elle!
I knew Anne Bradford would not let me down!
Under "Costermonger" she has, barrow-boy, kerb-merchant, pearly.