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blae

[ bley, blee ]

adjective

Scot. and North England.
  1. bluish-black; blue-gray.


blae

/ ble; bleɪ /

adjective

  1. bluish-grey; slate-coloured
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of blae1

1150–1200; Middle English (north) bla < Old Norse blackish blue; blue
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of blae1

from Old Norse á
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According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, firefghters were battling the blae at the corner of Temple and Fremont streets.

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Are ye to eat your meat by the cheeks of a red fire, and think upon this poor sick lad of mine, biting his finger-ends on a blae muir for cauld and hunger?

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The great red face took a blae colour—the tongue protruded from his mouth and the eyes stared wildly.

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They cause these arrows to strike the most vital part, but the stroke does not visibly break the skin, only a blae mark is the result visible on the body after death.

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There is neither tree nor bush, the sky is grey, the earth buff, the air blae and windy, and clouds of coarse granitic dust sweep across the prairie and smother the settlement.

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