jaspé
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French jaspé, the past participle of French jasper (“to colour motley, so as to imitate jasper”), from jaspe (“jasper”), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek.
Adjective[edit]
jaspé (comparative more jaspé, superlative most jaspé)
- Veined or clouded like imitation jasper.
- Streaked; variegated.
- 1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 187:
- He, too, like the advancing Guard and the ground on which he knelt, was patterned jaspé in black shadow and silvery white.
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Noun[edit]
jaspé (countable and uncountable, plural jaspés)
- A shaded, plain-weave type of cloth, embroidered or similarly printed.
- Jaspé is mainly used for curtains and bedspreads.
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From jasper, from the noun jaspe, from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek.
Pronunciation[edit]
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Participle[edit]
jaspé (feminine jaspée, masculine plural jaspés, feminine plural jaspées)
- past participle of jasper
Adjective[edit]
jaspé (feminine jaspée, masculine plural jaspés, feminine plural jaspées)
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Further reading[edit]
- “jaspé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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