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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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
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 Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Though sweet is spring, whan young and gay, And blithe the blinks o' summer day; I fear nae winter cauld and blae, If blest wi' love and Annie, O!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles
How do you this blae eastlin wind, That’s like to blaw a body blind?
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
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