jade berg
n.— «Ms Evans used a video camera to record some of the sights she hopes to reflect in her music, such as the drifting icebergs that were like “outposts at the end of the world,” the beauty of a “jade berg” (iceberg) and an aurora that she described as “a freak of light.”» —“Sounds of silence form symphony of infinity” by Andra Jackson The Age (Autstralia) Apr. 20, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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