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bluet

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Searchable Lemmata: bluet (AF), bluettus (L), bluet (MdE), bluett (MdE).
Alternate Forms: blavettus, blevettus, blewettus, blovettus, bluetum, bluette.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1a(n.) Dye; blue, woollen cloth. Also (with reference to cloth or garments) blue (noun and adj.) [cf. L blavus, blodius, etc.; blue].(1203 - ante 1600)
1. ad portandum burellos et bluettos et blankettos nostros Accounts. [DMLBS Cl (82c) 1207]
2. En drap bluete (var. de bluette) bien boillez Od siel en vin e chaut metez Medical. (noun or adjective) [AND Chir ANTS (988 (var C)) circa 1250]
3. utantur ... presbiteri ... extra [ecclesiam] vestibus humilibus et j coloris, utpote de blueto, resseto, cameleto, nigra burnetta et consimili Historic. [DMLBS Ch. Sal. (348) 1269]
4. in xiiij ulnis panni de blueto ad opus nepotum domini scolarium Oxon’ emptis, xxx s. Accounts. [DMLBS Ac. Stratton (108) 1279]
5. [153] ... firmacularii: gallice fermeylers ... [155] ... blodium gallice: dicitur bluet Gloss. [AND TLL (ii 153-155) ante 1300]
6. [108] ... [One mantle of] bluett [furred with] bisses. ... [112] ... [Salamon de Mareys of Luka] calendrer. Legal. [MED Court R.Lond. (108-112) 1300/1301]
7. unam tunicam de albo blueto ... unam tunicam de nigro blueto [DMLBS Arch. Bridgw. (47) 1310]
8. unam peciam panni blueti coloris (Cl) Accounts. [DMLBS Foed. (VII 356d) 1382]
9. qui duo lapides ... ponuntur in uno loculo de blueto serico (Invent.) Accounts. [DMLBS AMUND. (app. II 333) ante 1414]
10. Item lego Gilberto Skut xx s. et togam meam de bluett furr' Wills. [MED Will Bury in Camd.49 (10) 1439]
11. blew of colore, blodius, bluetus Gloss. [DMLBS PP (blodius, bluetus) 1440]
c.f.: blavus, blue
AF, L.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
1b(n.) Dye; azure (in heraldry).(1385 - 1600 ?)
1. pro albis ... gobonatis de armis et lozingis bluettis Historic. [DMLBS MonA (VI 1366) 1385]
c.f.: blavus
L.
Sex: N/A    Ceremonial: Yes
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Ultimately from Old French diminuative (-et, -ette) of bleu (masc.) and bleue (fem.). Also cf. other forms related to MdE blue, inclugind L blavus, blodius, bludus, etc.; blue. The term bluet seems to have dropped out of use by the sixteenth century.
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