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celadon

/sel-uh-don, -dn/US // ˈsɛl əˌdɒn, -dn //UK // (ˈsɛləˌdɒn) //

青花瓷,青瓷,青花瓷器,青瓷器

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of several Chinese porcelains having a translucent, pale green glaze.
    • : any porcelain imitating these.
    • : a pale gray-green.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having the color celadon.

Examples

  • Yoory Jung makes paintings and prints that emulate the surfaces of traditional Korean celadon pottery.

  • A carved celadon-glazed ceramic Qianlong vase sold for $7.9 million, double its high presale estimate.

  • The "Celadon and Amelia" is dingy, and poor in all respects.

  • "Celadon" ware is abundant from Karachi to Babylon, and some of it is of extraordinary fineness and beauty of glaze.

  • Had we been the Celadon and Chloe of a country village, he could not have regarded us as more equal, so far as the world went.

  • Celadon in despair throws himself into a river; this refers to his voyage to Malta.

  • When Alexis assumes the name of Celadon, he calls that love which Astrea had mistaken for fraternal affection.