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- adjective Resembling
jade (the precious stone).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Her pure rays fill the court, the jadelike rails enrobe!
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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As they made these remarks and advanced on their way the while, they perceived, just in front of them, an archway project to view, constructed of jadelike stone; at the top of which the coils of large dragons and the scales of small dragons were executed in perforated style.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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Her lustrous rays enshroud like light hoar-frost the jadelike balustrade.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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Its jadelike waves flowed in a limpid stream towards the opposite direction.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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Even the bricks, on the ground, on which she trod, were jadelike green, inlaid with designs, so that her eyes got more and more dazzled.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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It was a gigantic snake, apparently carved of some jadelike substance.
Conan the Wanderer Howard, Robert E. 1974
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She held up a knee-length tunic and overdress in contrasting shades of a soft rust, and took from the jewels a simple chain of gold with jadelike buttons in the links.
Restoree McCaffrey, Anne 1967
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"First-rate!" rejoined one of the visitors, "capital! but what would really be appropriate are the two characters 'dripping jadelike.'"
Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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Even the bricks, on the ground, on which she trod, were jadelike green, inlaid with designs, so that her eyes got more and more dazzled.
Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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As they made these remarks and advanced on their way the while, they perceived, just in front of them, an archway project to view, constructed of jadelike stone; at the top of which the coils of large dragons and the scales of small dragons were executed in perforated style.
Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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