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Jade

Jade ♀ From the name of the precious stone, a word that reached English from Spanish (piedra de) ijada, which literally means ‘(stone of the) bowels’. It was so called because it was believed to have the magical power of providing protection against disorders of the intestines. The vogue for this word as a given name developed later than that for other gemstone names, possibly because it sounds the same as the vocabulary word denoting a broken-down old horse or a nagging woman. It came to notice in the early 1970s when the daughter of the English rock star Mick Jagger was so named, peaking in popularity through the 1990s. In 2002 the name became famous as that of Jade Goody, a remarkably cheerful but ill-informed contestant on Channel 4's reality TV show Big Brother.

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jade1 / jād/ • n. a hard, typically green stone used for ornaments and implements and consisting of the minerals jadeite or nephrite. ∎  an ornament made of this. ∎  (also jade green) a light bluish-green: [as adj.] a baggy jade T-shirt. jade2 • n. archaic 1. a bad-tempered or disreputable woman. 2. an inferior or worn-out horse.

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jade a hard, typically green stone used for ornaments and implements and consisting of the minerals jadeite or nephrite. The word is recorded from the late 16th century, and comes via French from Spanish piedra de ijada ‘stone of the flank’ (i.e., stone for colic, which it was believed to cure).

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jade Semi-precious silicate mineral of two major types: jadeite, which is often translucent; and nephrite, which has a waxy quality. Both types are extremely hard. Jade is found mainly in Burma and comes in many colours, most commonly green and white. Hardness 5–6; r.d. 3–3.4.

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jade2 hard mineral. XVIII. — F.; le jade was for earlier l'ejade — Sp. ijada (in piedra de ijada ‘colic stone’) :- Rom. *iliata, f. L. ilia flanks.

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jade1 poor or worn-out horse XIV; reprehensible woman or girl XVI. of unkn. orig.

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jade See JADEITE.

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AILSA ALLABY and MICHAEL ALLABY. "jade." A Dictionary of Earth Sciences. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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