bloi

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Old French

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Etymology

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Of Germanic origin, compare blont.

Adjective

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bloi m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bloie)

  1. an uncertain color
    • c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland[1], lines 10–23:
      Li reis Marsilie esteit en Sarraguce. / Alez en est en un verger suz l'umbre; / Sur un perrun de marbre bloi se culchet, / Envirun lui plus de vint milie humes.
      The King Marsile was is Zaragoza. He went in a garden beneath the shade; laid himself on a large blonde [or blue] marble rock, around him more than twenty thousand man.
    1. blond, bright yellow
      Synonym: blont
      • 12th Century, Béroul, Tristan et Iseut:
        Yseut, par cest mien chief le bloi.
        Yseult, by my head, the blond.
    2. or perhaps blue

Declension

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