How to Use celadon in a Sentence

celadon

noun
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  • Peau de soie, mikado, faille and lurex intarsia with shades of celadon blue and fruité red.
    — Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 5 July 2018
  • Instead of dark leather, though, the banquettes are a celadon velvet, and walls are covered in a grasscloth printed with palm trees.
    — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 10 Feb. 2021
  • Then, in the dining and living rooms, an artist hand-painted a tiny little chain-link design in a soft celadon green or outlined the rafters in lavender.
    — Kathleen Renda, House Beautiful, 5 Oct. 2018
  • The palette on the shelves includes rosy pinks, celadon greens, caramel, violet, sapphire and aquamarine.
    — New York Times, 8 May 2018
  • Butterflies and beetles from far-flung jungles, sizes pea to pear, colors boot-black, celadon green, tomato red, lie in rows behind glass.
    — David Coggins, Town & Country, 10 Dec. 2015
  • Mayeron hand glazes magnificent celadon and gold pieces that sometimes include a sand texture.
    — Ryan Dyer, Star Tribune, 16 Sep. 2020
  • You’re also lulled by the background color, a restful celadon borrowed from Korean porcelain.
    — Kathleen Renda, House Beautiful, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Cirkva found that the bedroom's celadon walls, plum carpet, and green side tables festooned with Venetian flowers had become too dark and overtly feminine for her taste.
    — Kathleen Hackett, ELLE Decor, 7 June 2012
  • Giant brushed-back wig hair and an unstructured celadon blue silk gown with intricate intarsia cape opened the 63-look show in that era’s exaggerated style.
    — Washington Post, 4 July 2018
  • In one painting, smoke rings of white and celadon float above a dark-purple femurlike form against a beautiful red-on-cream crosshatch pattern startlingly similar to that which Jasper Johns employed in the 1970s.
    — Roberta Smith, Martha Schwendener, Jason Farago and Will Heinrich, New York Times, 25 May 2017
  • Incidents occur, as randomly assorted as the merchandise: a freak stabbing, a visit to a yakuza mobster with a suit of samurai armor to sell, the death of an Afghan hound, the appearance of a celadon bowl that may or may not be cursed.
    — Janice P. Nimura, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2017
  • Yoory Jung makes paintings and prints that emulate the surfaces of traditional Korean celadon pottery.
    — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2021
  • At one point, there were Lucite chairs around their Regency-style wood table, and Hagan gave them vibrant yet comforting greens and yellows on the walls, replacing the Cheneys’ more restrained cream-and-celadon palette.
    — Diana Budds, Curbed, 2 Feb. 2021
  • Nearly 100 items will be offered from the Asian arts department, including a massive Chinese celadon jade mountain, and a variety of Chinese porcelain, hardstone, and jadeite vases.
    — Erin Arvedlund, Philly.com, 4 Aug. 2017
  • The vase’s exterior features an intricate, celadon-green lattice.
    — Claire Bugos, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Peregalli’s alchemical craftspeople transformed the space into a series of intimate paneled and mirrored dining rooms in a harmonious celadon green palette.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 29 June 2018

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