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blewe

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English

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Etymology

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See blue.

Noun

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blewe (countable and uncountable, plural blewes)

  1. Obsolete form of blue.

Adjective

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blewe (comparative more blewe, superlative most blewe)

  1. Obsolete form of blue.

Anagrams

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Anglo-Norman blew; from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz. See also blo.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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blewe

  1. blue, azure
  2. blue-violet
  3. blue-grey; the colour of bruises
  4. blue-black

Descendants

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Noun

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blewe

  1. blue
  2. blue textiles
  3. (rare) blue pigment

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Colors in Middle English · coloures, hewes (layout · text)
     whit      grey, hor      blak
             red; cremesyn, gernet              citrine, aumbre; broun, tawne              yelow, dorry, gul; canevas
             grasgrene              grene             
             plunket; ewage              asure, livid              blewe, blo, pers
             violet; inde              rose, murrey; purpel, purpur              claret