jaspé

From French jaspé, the past participle of French jasper (“to colour motley, so as to imitate jasper”), from jaspe (“jasper”), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek.

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, plain-weave type of cloth, embroidered or similarly printed.

   Jaspé is mainly used for curtains and bedspreads.

• japes

From jasper, from the noun jaspe, from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek.

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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.