bluette
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
French bluette (literally “little spark”)
Noun edit
bluette (plural bluettes)
- (dated) A short but scintillating play or other work.
- 1878, The Theater: A Monthly Review and Magazine, volume 1, page 60:
- The Fürst Theater, the only theatre now open in Vienna, announced last week for production a bluette entitled, Der Schah von Persien in Wien (The Shah in Vienna).
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
bluette (plural bluettes)
French edit
Etymology edit
From beluette, from Old French belue (“spark”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bluette f (plural bluettes)
- scintilla (small spark)
- (figurative) trifle (unimportant thing, especially a small, unpretentious book or story)
- 1999, Anna Gavalda, “Petites pratiques germanopratines”, in Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part, →ISBN:
- Mais gardez vos réflexions pour vous et écoutez-moi car mon petit doigt me dit que cette histoire va vous amuser. Vous adorez les petites bluettes.
- But keep your thoughts to yourself and listen to me, because something tells me you're going to enjoy this. You love frivolous little stories.
Further reading edit
- “bluette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Noun edit
bluette m (invariable)
- a colour/color between an intense sky blue and an electric blue
Adjective edit
bluette (invariable)
- describing such a colour/color