blushet
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
blushet (plural blushets)
- (obsolete) A modest girl.
- 1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 4:
- little blushet Wax ne'er so easy
References edit
- “blushet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.