bliaut
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English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]bliaut (plural bliauts)
- (historical) A unisex overgarment worn in 12th-century Western Europe, featuring voluminous skirts and horizontal puckering or sometimes pleating across a snugly fitted underbust abdomen.
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[edit]French
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French bliaut, from Old French bliaut.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bliaut m (plural bliauts)
Descendants
[edit]- → English: bliaut
Further reading
[edit]- “bliaut”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Old French
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Frankish *blīwafalþ, from *blīu (“colour, hue, blee”) + *falþan (“to fold”). Cognate with Old Occitan blial.
Noun
[edit]bliaut oblique singular, m (oblique plural bliauz or bliautz, nominative singular bliauz or bliautz, nominative plural bliaut)
Descendants
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