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Green-glazed Chinese porcelain
Answer for the clue "Green-glazed Chinese porcelain ", 7 letters:
celadon
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Celadon may refer to: Celadon , in Chinese pottery, a family of glazes, and also wares in jade-like green colours Celadon (color) , a pale, sea-green pigment Celadon Trucking , a trucking company based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Céladon, a character ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of a pale green colour tinted with gray. n. 1 A pale green colour, possibly tinted with gray. 2 A pale green Chinese glaze. 3 A ceramic ware with a pale green glaze.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pale grayish-green," 1768, from French Céladon , name of a character in the romance of "l'Astrée" by Honoré d'Urfé (1610); an insipidly sentimental lover who wore bright green clothes, he is named in turn after Greek Keladon , a character in Ovid's "Metamorphoses," ...
Usage examples of celadon.
This large hut, eighteen feet wide by twenty-three feet long, yielded a fairly large quantity of coarse black and brown pottery, one badly corroded bronze bangle, and two small fragments of celadon china.
Many wights, both seelie and unseelie, danced among them garbed in robes of zaffre and celadon.
Any hag with golden eyes will always find me as affectionate as a Celadon.
It is a three-piece affair, everything quilted, long jacket, waistcoat, and trousers, which have Feet at the ends of them, all in striped silk, a double stripe of some acidick Rose upon Celadon for the Trousers and Waistcoat, and for the Jacket, whose hem touches the floor when, as now, he is seated, a single stripe of teal-blue upon the same color, which is also that of the Revers.
Maybe even one of their more populous central worlds: Celadon, Prospect, Avon, or even Earth itself.
But the simple fact was that in the thirty-seven years since that awful demonstration off Celadon, the NorCoord military had never again had to fire the weapon.
She seemed unreal in her gleaming impeccability, much like one of those Sung celadon vases that appear too flawless to have been thrown and glazed by human hands.
The strange little man with the celadon skin over by the far wall continued to stare at him.
The celadon man stood beside him: a compact, precise person, vaguely Oriental in appearance.
The room had been decorated mostly in shades of green, such as celadon, which were repeated in various upholstery fabrics and in the Aubusson carpet on the floor, some of the greens were so pale they were almost a silvery gray.
And standing proudly on the deck was a celadon green Christmas tree with poppy red garland and a yellow ocher star.
In the end, I chose two fabricsa saffron wool, fine-carded and light as a cloud, and a raw silk of pale celadon green.