How to display a description of a given category from a custom taxonomy

Ok. I’ve found a solution. Thanks to this great article on Smashing Magazine

The code to retrieve category description from any taxonomy term would be :

<?php echo (get_term_by('slug', 'your-term-name', 'your-taxonomy-name')->description); ?>

As simple as that

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