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bluet, -ett
Also 3 blouet.
[Strictly two words: 1. a. F. bluette, fem. dim. of bleu, bleue, ‘bluette du Rhin, basse laine d'Allemagne’ (Boiste), in med.L. bluetum, bluettum; 2. a. F. bleuet, bluet, in same sense, masc. dim. of bleu.]
†1. A kind of woollen cloth of bluish colour. Obs.[a1300Chron. de Mailros in Gale Rer. Angl. Script. Vet. (1684) I. 236 Inter suos domesticos contentus erat amictu rosseti, inter majores terræ raro Scarleti, frequenter vero bloueti vel burneti amiciebatur indumento.] 1437Bury Wills (1850) 10 Item lego Gilberto Skut xxs. et togam meam de bluett furr'. [1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xxii. 575 Bluett is quoted by the yard, and by the pannus or piece.] 2. The Corn Bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus). Also applied to other blue flowers, as in U.S. to Oldenlandia cærulea, ‘a delicate little herb producing in spring a profusion of light blue flowers fading to white, with a yellowish eye’ (Gray), and to a species of Bilberry (Vaccinium angustifolium).
1727Bradley Fam. Dict., Blue-Bottle, or Bluet..grows amongst Wheat and other Corn. |