Blee vs Blet - What's the difference?
blee | blet |
(rare, usually, poetic) Colour, hue.
* 1931 , Padraic Colum, "Before The Fair" in Lascelles Abercrombie, New English poems: a miscellany of contemporary verse never before published:
* 1920 , Anonymous, "To Marie" in Carolyn Wells, The Book of Humorous Verse :
*:When the breeze from the bluebottle's blustering blim/Twirls the toads in a tooroomaloo,/And the whiskery whine of the wheedlesome whim/Drowns the roll of the rattatattoo,/Then I dream in the shade of the shally-go-shee,/And the voice of the bally-molay/Brings the smell of stale poppy-cods blummered in blee /From the willy-wad over the way. [...]
* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , vol. 1:
*:[...] Thereupon sat a lady bright of blee , with brow beaming brilliancy [...]
*1850 , Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning :
Complexion.
Form, texture, consistency.
* 1898 , Algernon Charles Swinburne, The heptalogia :
General resemblance, likeness; aspect, appearance, look.
* That boy has a strong blee of his father. — Robert Forby
To undergo bletting, a fermentation process in certain fruit beyond ripening.
As a noun blee
is (rare|usually|poetic) colour, hue.As a verb blet is
to undergo bletting, a fermentation process in certain fruit beyond ripening.blee
English
Noun
- [...] "Live," "live," and "Here," "here," the blackbird / From the top of the bare ash-tree,/ Over the acres whistles / With beak of yellow blee . [...]
- Then the captain, young Lord Leigh, with his eyes so grey of blee , — Toll slowly.
- [...] I am thrilled half cosmically through by cryptophantic surgings / Till the rhythmic hills roar silent through a spongious kind of blee [...]