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celadon

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cel·a·don  (sl-dn)
n.
1. A pale to very pale green.
2. A type of pottery having a pale green glaze, originally produced in China.
[French, after Céladon, a character in L'Astrée, a romance by Honoré d'Urfé (1568-1625), French writer, after Celadn, a character in Ovid's Metamorphoses.]
cela·don adj.
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celadon
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celadon [ˈsɛləˌdɒn]
n
1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Ceramics) a type of porcelain having a greyish-green glaze: mainly Chinese
2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) a pale greyish-green colour, sometimes somewhat yellow
[from French, from the name of the shepherd hero of L'Astrée (1610), a romance by Honoré d'Urfé]
Translations
celadon
n → Seladon nt
adj → seladongrün
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Would, by father Jove, Minerva, and Apollo, that I were still young and strong as when the Pylians and Arcadians were gathered in fight by the rapid river Celadon under the walls of Pheia, and round about the waters of the river Iardanus.
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