a type of porcelain having a greyish-green glaze: mainly Chinese
2.
a pale greyish-green colour, sometimes somewhat yellow
Word origin
C18: from French, from the name of the shepherd hero of L'Astrée (1610), a romance by Honoré d'Urfé
celadon in American English
(ˈsɛləˌdɑn; ˈsɛlədən)
noun
a pale grayish green
Word origin
Fr céladon, a delicate green, earlier, a tender lover, after Céladon, the hero in Astrée, romance by d'Urfe (1610) < L (< Gr Keladōn), character in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Examples of 'celadon' in a sentence
celadon
Polly studied her a moment, then sat up and pulled on a celadon sweatshirt.