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† ˈblunket, a. and n. Obs.
Forms: 5–7 blanket, 6 bluncket, blancket, bloncket, bloncat, 7 blonket, 5–8 blunket.
[It is uncertain whether the adj. sense gave its name to the fabric, or whether the name of the fabric was transferred to its colour. The original form of the word is also doubtful, though blunket is both the earliest and by far the most frequent. This makes it doubtful whether it can have been an adoption of OF. blanquet, var. of blanchet, dim. of blanc white (and thus originally the same as blanket), a derivation which would to some extent suit the sense.]
A. adj. Grey, greyish blue, light blue.
1488Lord High. Treas. Accts. (Jam.) For x elne and j quarter of blanket caresay to be hos. c1534Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 74 Thei weare called Pictes..ether of their bluncket heres, ether of certaine marckes made with whot irons. a1552Leland Brit. Coll. III. 138 Cæsius, gray of colour, or blunket. 1552Huloet, Blancket coloure, cæsius. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. May 5 Our bloncket liueryes [gloss. gray coates] bene all to sadde. 1611Cotgr., Couleur perse, skie colour, Azure colour, a Blunket, or light blue. 1622Peacham Compl. Gentl. (1661) 155 Blanket colour, i.e. a light watchet. 1657W. Coles Adam in Eden cxxxv, Gilloflowers of such variable colours..Horseflesh, blunket, purple, and white. 1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict., Cæsius, gray, sky-coloured, with specks of gray blunket.
B. n. A fabric presumably of light grey or blue colour; possibly the same as blanket n. 1.
c1420Anturs Arth. xxix, Here belle [= cloak] was of blunket. c1440Gaw. & Galar. ii. 3 (Jam.) Here belte was of blunket. 1541Aberd. Reg. (Jam.) Three elln of bloncat. 1600Queen's Wardrobe in Nichols Progr. Q. Eliz. III. 506 One rounde kirtle of white clothe of silver chevernd, with bluncket, with lace of golde. |