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bleu (s.xii1/3)
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bleu (s.xii1/3)

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blau;  blef,  bleif,  blew;  blief,  blieus,  bliu;  bloe,  bloi,  blou;  blu,  blue,  bluef,  bluw,  blwe; 
f. bleive,  bleue,  bleve,  bloie  (bleuie (l. bleive?)  Lapid 254.1553 );
pl. bles  
  FEW:  *blao 15/i,146b and 149a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  bleu 8,331c TL: blo 1,1002 DEAF:  blo  DMF:  bleu  TLF:  bleu  OED:  blue a. and n.  MED:  bleu a.  DMLBS:  blodius 204a

a.

1colourdiscoloured, livid, bluish: 
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  E la face si bleve (var. bleu) li fu Cum un platein de plum batu  Mir N-D 245.29
( MS: s.xiiiex )  lividus: (C) bloy  TLL ii 165
( s.xiv2; MS: s.xiv2 )  s’il (=patient) [...] eit (e) verte colour o cendren o blef [...]  A-N Med ii 256
♦colourblue: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  Cachmahief (=cameo) est de pere nom: Blanche est en mi, bleue envirun  Lapid 225.650
( MS: s.xiii4/4 )  ceruleis: blois  TLL ii 11
( MS: s.xiii/xiv ) blodios: (D) bluis (var. (C: s.xiiiex) de blu )  TLL ii 133
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  voz (=the peacock’s) pennez sount si colurez, les uns de porpre, les autres blieus (var. (B: c.1330) blefs), les uns com saunke, [...]  BOZ Cont 25
( 1414 )  une mantelle de perce blew furré de gray  Reg Chich ii 8
( MS: s.xv )  il ad colur de saphyr, ceo est blef  Five Med MSS 141.E277
♦herald.colourazure, blue: 
( 1300; MS: s.xiv1 )  Jaune o un bleu lyon rampant Fu sa baniere  Eight Rolls 105.158
♦colourblue-grey: 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  Cil (=a place for a ship to land) fud faitiz en le rocheit blef  S Brend mup 264
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  la bloie colur Que columbe unt plusur  Best ants 2431
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Bleve lur munta la fumee (=of Hell) Cum furneis primes eschaufé  Mir N-D 218.47
( MS: s.xiiiex )  glaucos: (C) bloys  TLL ii 39.78
♦colourashen, grey: 
( MS: s.xiii )  cinereos: (A) bloy  TLL ii 39.79
2pale, unstained: 
( 1163-70; MS: s.xiii2 )  si ostent les plus preceins (= cloths round the corpse of the saint), Tot les trovent e bles e seins  S Edw barking 6009
3colourdark: 
( MS: s.xii )  fuscum: bloi culur  TLL i 106
( MS: s.xiv )  fulvum: bloee  TLL i 36
♦stern, gloomy: 
( MS: s.xiii4/4 )  torva parens: bloye mere  TLL ii 11

s.

colourtextileblue cloth: 
( MS: s.xiv1/4 )  .x. aunes de blue  Nov Narr 110
( 1321 )  fu vestu de une cote de blu (var. say)  YBB Ed II xxvi 88
( s.xivex )  que nul meistre face madrer nulles leynes que serrount deliverer [sic] pur blewe  YMB i 112
( 1415-22 )  que tous les compaignons dudit ordre porteront leurs manteaulx de bleu dudit ordre a l'eure des premieres vespres  Garter Stats1 99

See also:

tresbleu 
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