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- noun Plural form of
bliaut .
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Examples
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"Tomorrow we will see about having new chainses and new bliauts fashioned for you."
Gentle Warrior Garwood, Julie 1985
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If one opens a novel and encounters men wearing chausses and braies, women wearing wimples and bliauts, dinner menus featuring manchet loaves and angel bread, reeves collecting feorm, a fyrdman carrying a seax or a musician playing a rebec, it’s immediately apparent that the story is set in a world that is not the same as the modern world, where people dress and act and perhaps think differently.
Archive 2006-08-01 Carla 2006
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If one opens a novel and encounters men wearing chausses and braies, women wearing wimples and bliauts, dinner menus featuring manchet loaves and angel bread, reeves collecting feorm, a fyrdman carrying a seax or a musician playing a rebec, it’s immediately apparent that the story is set in a world that is not the same as the modern world, where people dress and act and perhaps think differently.
Archaic terminology in historical fiction Carla 2006
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