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   jade

   /dʒeɪd/

   noun

   • 1. a hard, typically green stone used for ornaments and implements and consisting of the minerals jadeite or nephrite: "a jade figurine"
   • ▪ an ornament made of jade.
   • ▪ a light bluish-green: "a silk blouse in a vivid jade green"

   Word Origin late 16th century: from French le jade (earlier l'ejade), from Spanish piedra de ijada ‘stone of the flank’ (i.e. stone for colic, which it was believed to cure).

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