blewe

See blue.

blewe (countable and uncountable, plural blewes)

1. Obsolete form of blue.

blewe (comparative more blewe, superlative most blewe)

1. Obsolete form of blue.
   • 1902 (reprint), Francis Bacon, ed. Helen Milman, Of Gardens, page 12:

     ...the White, the Purple, and the Blewe;...

• Belew

• blew, bleu, blue, blwe, blw, blyu

From a combination of Old English *blǣw and Anglo-Norman blew; both from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz. See also blo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɛu(ə)/
• Rhymes: -ɛu(ə)

blewe

1. blue, azure
2. blue-violet
3. blue-grey; the colour of bruises
4. blue-black

• Scots: blew, blue
• English: blue
  • Tok Pisin: blu
  • → Fiji Hindi: bulu
  • → Shona: bhuluu
  • → Somali: buluug
  • → Swahili: bluu, buluu

• “bleu (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-29.

blewe

1. blue
2. blue textiles
3. (rare) blue pigment

• English: blue
• Scots: blew, blue

• “bleu (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-29.