bluet, -ett
Also 3 blouet.
[Strictly two words: 1. a. F. bluette, fem. dim. of bleu, bleue, ‘bluette du Rhin, basse laine d'Allemagne’ (Boiste), in med.L. bluetum, bluettum; 2. a. F. bleuet, bluet, in same sense, masc. dim. of bleu.]
† 1. A kind of woollen cloth of bluish colour. Obs.
| [a 1300 Chron. de Mailros in Gale Rer. Angl. Script. Vet. (1684) I. 236 Inter suos domesticos contentus erat amictu rosseti, inter majores terræ raro Scarleti, frequenter vero bloueti vel burneti amiciebatur indumento.] 1437 Bury Wills (1850) 10 Item lego Gilberto Skut xxs. et togam meam de bluett furr'. [1866 Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xxii. 575 Bluett is quoted by the yard, and by the pannus or piece.] |
2. The Corn Bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus). Also applied to other blue flowers, as in U.S. to Oldenlandia cærulea, ‘a delicate little herb producing in spring a profusion of light blue flowers fading to white, with a yellowish eye’ (Gray), and to a species of Bilberry (Vaccinium angustifolium).
| 1727 Bradley Fam. Dict., Blue-Bottle, or Bluet..grows amongst Wheat and other Corn. |