bluette
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From French bluette (literally “little spark”).
Noun
[edit]bluette (plural bluettes)
- (dated) A short but scintillating play or other work.
- 1878, The Theater: A Monthly Review and Magazine, volume 1, page 60:
- The Fürst Theater, the only theatre now open in Vienna, announced last week for production a bluette entitled, Der Schah von Persien in Wien (The Shah in Vienna).
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]bluette (plural bluettes)
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From beluette, from Old French belue (“spark”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bluette f (plural bluettes)
- scintilla (small spark)
- (figurative) trifle (unimportant thing, especially a small, unpretentious book or story)
- 1999, Anna Gavalda, “Petites pratiques germanopratines”, in Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part, →ISBN:
- Mais gardez vos réflexions pour vous et écoutez-moi car mon petit doigt me dit que cette histoire va vous amuser. Vous adorez les petites bluettes.
- But keep your thoughts to yourself and listen to me, because something tells me you're going to enjoy this. You love frivolous little stories.
Further reading
[edit]- “bluette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Noun
[edit]bluette m (invariable)
- a colour/color between an intense sky blue and an electric blue
Adjective
[edit]bluette (invariable)
- describing such a colour/color
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