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Searchable Lemmata: bleu (AF), bleu (ME), blew (OScots), blue (MdE), blæ (OE).
Alternate Forms: bleu, blau, blew, blieus, bliu, bloe, bloi, blou, blu, blue, bluef, bluw, blwe, blef, bleif, blief, bleive, bleve, bleue, bloie, bloue, bles.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Dye; (in cloth and clothing contexts:) blue or purple colour; blue dye or pigment; blue as a symbol (of constancy); also, blue as an adjective. Newton, S.M. (1980) suggests that the term 'blu' (bluet, bluetum) used in association with white in Wardrobe Accounts of the mid to late 1340s, indicates items made for the Order of the Garter, other terms being used more generally (azure, ynde, etc.) [p. 44].(ante 1325 still in current use)
1. [132] ... spinter: affiçayl (vars. fiçayl, pin) ... [133] ... albos: blankeis ... blodios: de blu, bluis ... burneticos: burnet ... camelinos: de camelot, de camelin ... stanfordeos: estaunfordeis, de Estaford (l. Estanford) ... [134] ... cappa: cappe, copele ... [135] ... brachiola: bracerole, braceroles, bracerolis, brassenoles Gloss. (citations from page of text may not be in original order) [AND TLL (ii 132-135) ante 1300]
2. [8] ... je devise ... une paire de vestimentz de satyn bleu et noir palee et ribane d’ore entre les palez ... c’est assavoir chesible, aube ... une chesible, ij tonicles, iij aubes ... fruntel et ij napes pur icelle ... une mantelle de perce blew furré de gray ... Les iij paires vestimentz ferialez, l’un bleu, l’autre blanc et la tierce drape esteignez ... ij touaillez frengés pur les ditz suytz de vermaille et bleu ... une frounte de satin rouge frengez ... [11] ... un hopeland linez ové bokeramnoir Accounts. (citations from page of text may not appear in original order) [AND Reg Chich (ii 8-11) 1414/1443]
3. Take blew and ley on þy cloth ... Put a lite red to þy blew. Medical. (as subst.) [MED Henslow Recipes ((Henslow) 5/1) ante 1500]
c.f.: blavus, blæhæwen
AF, Co, ME, MdE, OScots.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
2(n.) Dye; (in cloth and clothing contexts:) blue cloth (cf. blew of Ipres); also, blue enamel.(circa 1205 - ante 1500)
1. Mittimus ad vos ... i supertunicam de blou & bisso. Accounts. [MED Clos R.Tower 1 (25b) 1205]
2. fu vestu de une cote de blu (var. say) Accounts. [AND YBB Ed II (xxvi 88) 1307/1321]
3. un annull ... que jeo solay porter entour mon colle, ové un crosce d’argent endoré, ové un floreigne de la ymage de nostre Dame. ... mon clothe (l. cloche) furroré de bluw Wills. (citations from page of text may not appear in original order) [AND Test Ebor (i 1994) 1394]
4. [112] ... que nul meistre face madrer nulles leynes que serrount deliverer [sic] pur blewe ... [113] ... nul estraunge homme chemynant ... ovesqez ascuns leyns ou drapes d’estre colorez ... [114] ... que nul mestre ... face bartirer ou autre bargaine pur les colours de son arte faire Legal. [AND YMB (i 112-114) circa 1300/1500]
5. (1415) Furruram de croppes de gray ... j lectum de worstede, de light blewe et sadde blewe ... j plice [?read: plite] de lawnd ... (1416) j plice [read: plite] de lawnd, j flameolum de coton. Wills. (citations from page of text may not appear in original order) [MED Will York in Sur.Soc.4 (382-383) 1415/1416]
6. Þe cnap of þe couercle ys an-amylyd with blewe. Legal, Wills. (enamel) [MED EEWills (45/8) 1420]
ME, MdE, OScots.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, The noun is derived from the adjective (used absolutely or elliptically).
WF:
Etym Cog: blár (Ice).
References:
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