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Les deux tombeaux sont couleur de jaspre sur le vermeil, comme une brique (de jaspe rouge).
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Tout à coup, à cóté de cette figure de jaspe, il vit un marchand qui faisait hommage à la statue d'un éventail de taffetas blanc du pays de _Tsin_.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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Une fontaine artificielle et jaillissante, dont le bassin est d'un prétieux marbre verd qui m'a paru serpentin ou jaspe, s'élevoit directement au milieu, sous le dôme ....
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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Les deux tombeaux sont couleur de jaspre sur le vermeil, comme une brique (de jaspe rouge).
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Celui qui etait assis avait l’aspect d’une pierre de jaspe et de sardone, et le trone etait environne d’un arc-en-ciel qui avait l’aspect de l’emeraude.
fbharjo commented on the word jaspe
jasper - as an adjective
July 8, 2007
slumry commented on the word jaspe
Nice!
July 10, 2007
knitandpurl commented on the word jaspe
"I played on boards whose squares changed in the course of a single game. They were made of squares of darker and lighter sand sprinkled on the board. In the course of the game the wind would blow the sand about, into long patches run through with different colours, until the board became a whirl of darker and lighter twists, reminiscent of the jaspé bindings of books come to life in dreams; and the pieces would pick their way through them, before crumbling and blending in with the sand of the squares."
- The Golden Age by Michal Ajvaz, translated by Andrew Oakland, p 128 of the Dalkey Archive paperback
June 13, 2011
t1c1 commented on the word jaspe
See jaspé: A fabric with an arrangement of fine stripes formed by light, medium, and dark shades of a given color.
August 18, 2011