bloi
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Of Germanic origin, compare blont.
Adjective edit
bloi m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bloie)
- an uncertain color
- c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland[1], lines 10–23:
- Li reis Marsilie esteit en Sarraguce. / Alez en est en un verger suz l'umbre; / Sur un perrun de marbre bloi se culchet, / Envirun lui plus de vint milie humes.
- The King Marsile was is Zaragoza. He went in a garden beneath the shade; laid himself on a large blonde [or blue] marble rock, around him more than twenty thousand man.
Declension edit
Declension of bloi
References edit
- Joseph Bédier (1927) “bloi”, in Glossaire de la Chanson de Roland[2] (in French)