blake
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Etymology edit
From Middle English blak, blac (“pale”), from Old English blāc (“pale, pallid, wan, livid; bright, shining, glittering, flashing”) and Old Norse bleikr (“pale; yellow, pink; any non-red warm color”); both from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale; shining”). Compare Scots bleg (“light, drab”). More at bleak.
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blake (comparative blaker or more blake, superlative blakest or most blake) (UK dialectal, Northern England, poetic)
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- (sickly pale): see also Thesaurus:pallid
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blake
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blake
- inflection of blaken:
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blake
- Alternative form of blak
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blake
- Alternative form of bloken