blae
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of blae
1150–1200; Middle English (north) bla < Old Norse blā blackish blue; see blue
Example Sentences
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Dalrymple has been lang our fae, M’Gill has wrought us meikle wae, And that curs’d rascal call’d M’Quhae, And baith the Shaws, That aft ha’e made us black and blae, Wi’ vengefu’ paws.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
There is neither tree nor bush, the sky is grey, the earth buff, the air blae and windy, and clouds of coarse granitic dust sweep across the prairie and smother the settlement.
From A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
The cauld blae North was streaming forth Her lights, wi' hissing, eerie din; Athwart the lift they start and shift, Like Fortune's favors, tint as win.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
The great red face took a blae colour—the tongue protruded from his mouth and the eyes stared wildly.
From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by Sillars, John
Are ye to eat your meat by the cheeks of a red fire, and think upon this poor sick lad of mine, biting his finger-ends on a blae muir for cauld and hunger?
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 10 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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