jaspé

• jaspe

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).

jaspé (comparative more jaspé, superlative most jaspé)

1. Veined or clouded like imitation jasper.
2. Streaked; variegated.
   • 1939, Philip George Chadwick, The Death Guard, page 187:

     He, too, like the advancing Guard and the ground on which he knelt, was patterned jaspé in black shadow and silvery white.

• jasper
• jasperize
• jaspidean
• jaspideous

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.

   • 1990, Sharon Alderman, A Handweaver's Notebook, →ISBN, page 57:

     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.

• japes

Past participle of jasper.

• IPA^(key): /ʒas.pe/

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jaspé (feminine jaspée, masculine plural jaspés, feminine plural jaspées)

1. past participle of jasper

jaspé (feminine jaspée, masculine plural jaspés, feminine plural jaspées)

1. jaspé

• jaspage
• jaspe m
• jaspure

• “jaspé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.