celadon

Borrowed from the French céladon, from the character named Céladon, who wore pale green ribbons, in the novel L'Astrée by Honoré d'Urfé, from Latin Celadon, a warrior's name in Ovid's Metamorphoses, related to Ancient Greek κέλᾰδος (kélădos, “din, clamour”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlədən/, /ˈsɛlədɒn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛləˌdɑn/

celadon (usually uncountable, plural celadons)

1. A pale green colour, possibly tinted with gray.

   celadon:  

   • 2018 February 13, Katy Kelleher, “Eau de Nil, the Light-Green Color of Egypt-Obsessed Europe”, in The Paris Review‎^[1]:

     Eau de Nil (“water of the Nile”) is a tricky color to pin down precisely. It is a light-greenish hue, more saturated than celadon, less gray than sage.

2. A pale green Chinese glaze.
3. A ceramic ware with a pale green glaze.

celadon (comparative more celadon, superlative most celadon)

1. Of a pale green colour tinted with gray.
   • 1941, Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Penguin 1971 edition, page 40:

     [H]e stroked a soft blue cat with celadon eyes which had appeared from nowhere and now made itself comfortable in his lap […].

• Appendix:Colors

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[2] (etymology)
• “celadon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Caledon, Condela, decanol

Borrowed from French céladon.

• IPA^(key): /ˌseː.laːˈdɔn/
• Hyphenation: ce‧la‧don
• Rhymes: -ɔn

celadon n (uncountable)

1. celadon (color)
2. celadon (ceramic glaze, ceramic ware)

celadon m

1. celadon (color, ceramic glaze, and ceramic ware)

• calendo, celando, locande

celadon m (definite singular celadonen, indefinite plural celadoner, definite plural celadonene)

1. celadon (ceramic ware)

• seladon

Borrowed from French céladon.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sɛˈla.dɔn/

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• Rhymes: -adɔn
• Syllabification: ce‧la‧don

celadon m inan

1. celadon (ceramic glaze, ceramic ware)

• celadon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

celadon n

1. celadon (color, ceramic glaze, and ceramic ware)

celadon

1. celadon (color)