bliaut

• bliaud

From French bliaut, from Old French bliaut, blialt, from Frankish *blīfald, from *blīo + *faldan, from Proto-Germanic *blīwą + *falþaną. Compare also Middle High German blialt (“precious fabric of silk embroidered with gold”), English bleaunt.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbliːˌoʊ/

bliaut (plural bliauts)

1. (historical) A women's overgarment worn in 12th-century Western Europe, featuring voluminous skirts and horizontal puckering or pleating across a snugly fitted underbust abdomen.

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• tabuli

From Middle French bliaut, from Old French bliaut, blialt, from Frankish *blīfald, from *blīo + *faldan, from Proto-Germanic *blīwą + *falþaną. Compare also Old High German blialt (“precious fabric of silk embroidered with gold”), English bleaunt.

• IPA^(key): /bli.jo/

bliaut m (plural bliauts)

1. bliaut

• “bliaut” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• blutai

From Old French *blīfald, from *blīo + *faldan, from Proto-Germanic *blīwą + *falþaną.

bliaut m (oblique plural bliauz or bliautz, nominative singular bliauz or bliautz, nominative plural bliaut)

1. bliaut