Bluet
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /bluːɪt/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bluet is a noun meaning (countable) Any of several different plants, from several genera, having bluish flowers.
Meaning
(countable) Any of several different plants, from several genera, having bluish flowers.
More Meanings
- (countable) Any of several small damselfly species, including the genera Coenagrion and Enallagma.
- (usually uncountable, historical) A kind of blue woolen cloth.
Example Sentences
My breathing shakes the bluet like a breeze ….
They passed undulating fields of wheat speckled with the confetti of poppies and bluets.
For the Feast of the Assumption, cloth of bluet and of rayed (i.e., striped) scarlet was bought for the robes of the Prince [Edward] and Sir John de Bretagne.
Bogo de Clare’s esquires were bought three cloths of scarlet ray and three of yellow cloth, together with furs and hoods of budge (lambskin). Bogo himself had bluet (blue cloth) and perse (dark-blue cloth), […]
Word Forms
- bluets
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include blueweed, bluebell, bluestem, turquoiseberry, bluebottle, bluemink.
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