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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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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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