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- noun Plural form of
jade . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
jade .
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Examples
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The new Mei Moses Traditional Chinese Works of Art Index, which tracks repeat sale prices for more than 1,400 jades, painted screens and other artworks, has been on a tear.
Chinese Appetite for Art Could Be Satiated Liam Denning 2011
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Among the Han dynasty jades and Indian terra-cotta works in "The Horse," an exhibit at Chicago's Field Museum, stands a contemporary piece showing a very personal bond between an artist and her horse.
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With every glimpse, every meeting of their eyes, those cool, kohl-rimmed jades bored into her, causing little electrodes to zip through her insides.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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When the age of decadence arrived, people cut rocks from the mountains, hacking out metals and jades.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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When the age of decadence arrived, people cut rocks from the mountains, hacking out metals and jades.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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With every glimpse, every meeting of their eyes, those cool, kohl-rimmed jades bored into her, causing little electrodes to zip through her insides.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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With every glimpse, every meeting of their eyes, those cool, kohl-rimmed jades bored into her, causing little electrodes to zip through her insides.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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There, she sources antique jades and turquoise stones for her handicraft.
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Bronzes and jades in the sacrificial pits at Sanxingdui were made by peoples who were not mentioned in any early Chinese text.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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Yes, our perceptions really were this shallow and unshaped by the Internet and real-time journalism that jades us all today, and two, that this film broke apart the American paradigm and exposed its weaknesses.
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