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blǽ-hǽwen

  • adjective
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blǽ-hǽwen, blǽ-hwen, blǽwen; adj. [bleó blue, hǽwen hued]
Of a blue hue, bluish, violet or purple colour; cæruleus, perseus
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  • Moises scrídde ðone bisceop [Aaron] mid línenum reáfe, and girde hine, and dyde ymbe hine blǽhwene tunecan, and léde eaxlcláþ ofer hine

    Moses clothed the bishop [Aaron] with a linen garment, and girded him [with a girdle], and put around him a blue tunic, and laid a cope [lit, shouldercloth] upon him,

      Lev. 8, 7.

  • Blǽwen

    perseus,

      Ælfc. Gl. 80; Som. 72, 94; Wrt. Voc. 46, 51.
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v.  blǽwen.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “blǽ-hǽwen.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/4594.

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