celadon

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These cups were of that sea-green tint called celadon, with a very wonderful glow and radiance.

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  1. noun A pale to very pale green.
  2. noun A type of pottery having a pale green glaze, originally produced in China.

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  • In the first days I would climb to the highest point on the island, a granite dome ringed by tamaracks and hemlock, the gray stone covered with lichen, celadon, bone-white, brilliant orange: as though armfuls of dried flowers had been tossed from an airplane high overhead. —  FSF,October2005
  • More than 1,000 gold, bronze, and celadon pieces and other relics owned by Ogura now make up the core of the museum's Korean section. —  The Buddhist Channel
  • I learned that if you chop up the wood, and put it in the water with fiber using a steel pot, you get this beautiful celadon color. —  Annie Knits
  • How about sparkling ruby pomegranate seeds suspended in a celadon sea of honeydew melon? —  the urban vegan
  • '' Lavender is really pretty in a modern room with a gray or taupe color, '' says Sarah Wessel of Washington, D.C. She prefers lavender wallpaper and fabrics to paint, which she believes looks cold, and she likes to pair lavender walls with a celadon ceiling and would take a chance with orange: '' kind of crazy, but kind of fun. '' —  azcentral.com | news
 

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  1. French, after Céladon, a character in L'Astrée, a romance by Honoré d'Urfé (1568-1625), French writer, after Celadōn, a character in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

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  1. from French céladon, a sea-green color, also a sentimental lover: so called from Céladon, the sentimental hero of a once popular romance, “L'Astrée,” by Honoré d'Urfé (died 1625), from Latin Celadon, in Ovid, a companion of Phineus, also one of the Lapithæ, from Greek κελάδων, roaring (used as the name of a river), from κελάδειν, κελαδεῖν, sound, roar, shout, κέλαδος, a noise, shout.
 

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