celadon

Borrowed from the French céladon from the character named Céladon, who wore pale green ribbons, in the novel "Astree" by Honoré d'Urfé, from Latin Celadon, a warrior's name in Ovid's "Metamorphoses".

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

celadon (usually uncountable, plural celadons)

Stoneware pottery with a celadon glaze, from the Ming Dynasty. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

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

   celadon colour:  

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. (etymology)
• celadon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• Caledon, Condela, decanol

celadon n

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

celadon

1. celadon (color)