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jaspé

jaspé adjective: veined or clouded like imitation jasper.

Adjective

jaspé (comparative more jaspé, superlative most jaspé)

  1. Veined or clouded like imitation jasper.
  2. Streaked; variegated.
    • He, too, like the advancing Guard and the ground on which he knelt, was patterned jaspé in black shadow and silvery white.1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 187

Noun

jaspé (countable and uncountable, plural jaspés)

  1. A shaded, plainweave type of cloth, embroidered or similarly printed.
    • Jaspé is mainly used for curtains and bedspreads.
    • The stripes in the last fabric in this collection emulate jaspé. The tecnique used to produce real jaspé stripes is lengthy: the warps are measured, tied to resist the dye in some places, and then put into a dyebath and the dye fixed; the warp is then dried and taken to the loom.1990, Sharon Alderman, A Handweaver's Notebook, →ISBN, page 57

Forms of jaspé

Adjective
comparativemore jaspé
superlativemost jaspé
alternative formjaspe
Noun
pluraljaspés

Origin of jaspé

From French jaspé, past participle of jasper (“to colour motley, so as to imitate jasper”), from jaspe (“jasper”), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek ἴασπις (íaspis).

Questions about jaspé

What does jaspé mean?
Jaspé means veined or clouded like imitation jasper.
What part of speech is jaspé?
Jaspé can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near jaspé in the dictionary

  1. jasplakinolides
  2. jaspoid
  3. jasponyx
  4. jaspopal
  5. jasps
  6. jaspé
  7. jaspés
  8. jass
  9. jassamine
  10. jassamines
  11. jassendar

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