blae
- adjective
- Literature
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- His blae eyes stared out across the moorland, matching the stormy sky above.
Examples
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The sky turned a deep blae as the sun set.
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The distant hills looked blae in the early morning mist.
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Heather grew in wild profusion, turning the slopes a blae shade each autumn.
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She wore a blae dress to the party.
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The distant hills looked blae in the early morning mist.
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His blae eyes stared out across the moorland, matching the stormy sky above.
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The sky turned a deep blae as the sun set.
Synonyms
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1.2
Slightly blue in color
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3.6
Very dark color that is black with a blue shine
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2.5
A grey color with a touch of blue
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3.7
A very dark color like black with a slight hint of blue
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Blae comes from an old northern word blár meaning 'blue' or 'dark', and is like the English word blue. Think of a mix of 'blue' and grey, like a stormy sky, and that is why blae means a bluish-black or grey-blue color.