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- noun Obsolete form of
blue .
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Examples
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A tapestry set depicting "a king riding in a chariott in a blewe gowne with starres" was likely the Alexander tapestry listed in her 1523 inventory. 157 The Inventory described the 1547 tapestry set as depicting a "fier in the middes," which separated two portrayals of a woman in the clouds.
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Of horn, of boon, in whiche they blewe and powped,
The Canterbury Tales 2006
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The blacke louper. the body of blacke wull & lappyd abowte wyth the herle of the pecok tayle: & the wynges of the redde capon wt a blewe heed.
Philocrites: It's Friday: Time for Middle English cooking! 2005
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There ben also in that contree passynge grete serpentes, sume of 120 Fote long, and thei ben of dyverse coloures, as rayed, rede, grene and zalowe, blewe and blake, and alle spekelede.
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But howsoever, the windes blewe merrily, the Carracke sayled lustily, and (by this time) they are arrived at
The Decameron 2004
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The 4. of Iuly, in the morning we began to burn the towne, and with pouder blewe vp the castle which lay by the towne, and we burned likewise all the cloisters and churches which were without the towne, lying neere the water side.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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There ben also in that contree passynge grete serpentes, sume of 120 Fote long, and thei ben of dyverse coloures, as rayed, rede, grene and zalowe, blewe and blake, and alle spekelede.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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This day was a very hard day with vs: at night we found much broken yce, and all this night it blewe very much winde, so that we lay in drift with the yce, and our drift was
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The 11. of Iuly, in the morning it blewe a stout gale in our topsailes out of the Northeast, but as we approched the Iland of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In the euening it blewe so much winde, that wee were forced to strike our maine top mast, and we ranne the whole night with two courses by the wind.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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