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Title: Word of the Day for Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Post by: Bondai on September 12, 2012, 03:32:51 PM
celadon \SEL-uh-don\, noun:

1. A pale gray-green.
2. Any of several Chinese porcelains having a translucent, pale green glaze.
3. Any porcelain imitating these.

adjective:
1. Having the color celadon.


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The detail was striking and the cream, salmon, and celadon of the offset colors realistic, if slightly dated.
-- David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

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Far out, the bay had a glaze like celadon.
-- Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose


The word celadon stems from the name of a character in the 1610 book L'Astrée by Honoré d'Urfé. The character Céladon was a sentimental lover who wore bright green clothes.
Title: Re: Word of the Day for Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Post by: obumazombie on September 12, 2012, 03:44:00 PM
Can it be used as a sniglet ?
Title: Re: Word of the Day for Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Post by: Bondai on September 12, 2012, 03:51:13 PM
Can it be used as a sniglet ?

I suppose. Most of what we read is just made up shit anyway. :rotf: