Read full poem →Poor Y----r's sold for fifty pounds,
And B----ll is a jade.
Dictionary Entry
A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. jadegreen jadeemperor jadesnow jadesaid jadejade greenjade whitejade black
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Poetry examples for “jade”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Rose-leaves blow and patter against it. Below the stone steps a lute tinkles.
A jar of green jade throws its shadow half over the floor. A big-bellied
Frog hops through the sunlight and plops in the gold-bubbled water of a basin,
Read full poem →sous. Latnah had gone about once and collected sous
in her tiny jade tray. But she never went again. She
loved Banjo, but she could not enter into the spirit of
Read full poem →This woman to his home--"the shameless trull,"
Said Mrs. Wenner, "harlot, impudent jade,
To think my husband is dead, would she were dead--
Read full poem →_White jade and an orange pitcher,_
_Hindu idol, Chinese god,--_
Read full poem →And what a reception:
Red jade cups, food well set on a blue jewelled table,
And I was drunk, and had no thought of returning.
Read full poem →Were this love well here displayed,
As flame flameth 'neath thin jade
Love should glow through these my phrases.
Read full poem →There comes a keener gleam instead,
Like flame that burns beneath thin jade.
Read full poem →"Why, then, should I care to have thee?" he said,--
"A faded old woman, a heathenish jade!"
Read full poem →wife, to St Paul's for a man, and to Smithfield for a horse, may
meet with a whore, a knave, and a jade. Falstaff, on being informed
that Bardolph is gone to Smithfield to buy him a horse, observes,