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Synonyms for jade
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : jeyd |
| Phonetic Transcription : dʒeɪd |
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Définition of jade
Origin :- ornamental stone, 1721, earlier iada (1590s), from French le jade, error for earlier l'ejade, from Spanish piedra de (la) ijada (1560s), "stone of colic, pain in the side" (jade was thought to cure this), from Vulgar Latin *iliata, from Latin ilia (plural) "flanks, kidney area" (see ileum).
- noun slut
- verb fatigue
- A man who entrusts his heart to a woman has a jade for his banker.
- Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
- That jade of yours, Toinette, has grown more insolent than ever.
- Extract from : « The Imaginary Invalid » by Molire
- Then round about him the Herd Boy saw forests of chrysophrase and trees of jade.
- Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
- The jade had to come to him, at last, completely subdued, as in the “Taming of the Shrew.”
- Extract from : « Blood and Iron » by John Hubert Greusel
- I held the crystal globe in one hand and the jade talisman in the other.
- Extract from : « Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective » by Ellis Parker Butler
- To make ye a poor Rogue as long as you live, like a Jade as you are.
- Extract from : « Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) » by Lawrence Echard
- She is virtuous and constant; Ardelia is a jade capable of heartless treachery.
- Extract from : « The Works of Aphra Behn » by Aphra Behn
- From the mirror Cassy went to a table and, from a jade platter, took a ring.
- Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
- The Master said, 'Courtesy, courtesy,' is the cry; but are jade and silk the whole of courtesy?
- Extract from : « The Sayings Of Confucius » by Confucius
- Often there is a green which can only be matched by jade or emerald.
- Extract from : « The Heart of Nature » by Francis Younghusband
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