bluette

English

Etymology 1

French bluette (literally “little spark”)

Noun

bluette (plural bluettes)

1. (dated) A short but scintillating play or other work.
   • 1878, The Theater: A Monthly Review and Magazine (volume 1, page 60)

     The Fürst Theater, the only theatre now open in Vienna, announced last week for production a bluette entitled, Der Schah von Persien in Wien (The Shah in Vienna).

Etymology 2

blue +‎ -ette

Noun

bluette (plural bluettes)

1. A kind of satinette pigeon.

French

Etymology

From beluette, from Old French belue (“spark”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bly.ɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

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Noun

bluette f (plural bluettes)

1. scintilla (small spark)
2. (figurative) trifle (unimportant thing, especially a small, unpretentious book or story)
   • 1999, Anna Gavalda, “Petites pratiques germanopratines”, in Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part, →ISBN:

     Mais gardez vos réflexions pour vous et écoutez-moi car mon petit doigt me dit que cette histoire va vous amuser. Vous adorez les petites bluettes.

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Further reading

• “bluette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

bluette m (invariable)

1. (color) a colour/color between an intense sky blue and an electric blue

Adjective

bluette (invariable)

1. describing such a colour/color