blee

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Talaffuz

• XFA: /bliː/

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blee

1. (rare) Colour, hue.
   • 1931, Padraic Colum, "Before The Fair" in Lascelles Abercrombie, New English poems: a miscellany of contemporary verse never before published:

     [...] "Live," "live," and "Here," "here," the blackbird / From the top of the bare ash-tree,/ Over the acres whistles / With beak of yellow blee. [...]

   • 1920, Anonymous, "To Marie" in Carolyn Wells, The Book of Humorous Verse:

     When the breeze from the bluebottle's blustering blim/Twirls the toads in a tooroomaloo,/And the whiskery whine of the wheedlesome whim/Drowns the roll of the rattatattoo,/Then I dream in the shade of the shally-go-shee,/And the voice of the bally-molay/Brings the smell of stale poppy-cods blummered in blee/From the willy-wad over the way. [...]

   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, vol. 1:

     [...] Thereupon sat a lady bright of blee, with brow beaming brilliancy [...]

   • 1850, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning:

     Then the captain, young Lord Leigh, with his eyes so grey of blee, — Toll slowly.

2. Complexion.
3. Form, texture, consistency.
   • 1898, Algernon Charles Swinburne, The heptalogia:

     [...] I am thrilled half cosmically through by cryptophantic surgings / Till the rhythmic hills roar silent through a spongious kind of blee [...]

4. General resemblance, likeness; aspect, appearance, look.
   • That boy has a strong blee of his father. — Robert Forby

Sinonimlari

• color, colour
• hue
• complexion

Derived terms

• bleeful
• bleeless

Related terms

• bly