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bliaut

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Statue of a woman wearing a bliaut.

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From French bliaut.

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bliaut (plural bliauts)

  1. (historical) A unisex overgarment worn in 12th-century Western Europe, featuring voluminous skirts and horizontal puckering or sometimes pleating across a snugly fitted underbust abdomen.

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French bliaut, from Old French bliaut.

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bliaut m (plural bliauts)

  1. bliaut

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  • → English: bliaut

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Old French

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From Frankish *blīwafalþ, from *blīu (“colour, hue, blee”) +‎ *falþan (“to fold”). Cognate with Old Occitan blial.

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bliaut oblique singular, m (oblique plural bliauz or bliautz, nominative singular bliauz or bliautz, nominative plural bliaut)

  1. bliaut

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