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celadon

celadon


cel·a·don    Audio Help   (sěl'ə-dŏn')   

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 Celadōn, a character in Ovid's Metamorphoses.]
cel'a·don' adj.
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