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Lee vs Blee - What's the difference?

lee | blee |

As a proper noun lee

is for someone who lived near a meadow (the anglo-saxon for meadow being ley or leag).

As a noun blee is

(rare|usually|poetic) colour, hue.

lee

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (sailing) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
  • (sailing) The side of the ship away from the wind.
  • A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection.
    • the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship
  • * Morte d'Arthure
    • We lurked under lee .
  • * Tyndall
    • Desiring me to take shelter in his lee .

    Derived terms

    * alee * leeward * leeway

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    * lees

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    blee

    English

    Noun

  • (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:
    • [...] "Live," "live," and "Here," "here," the blackbird / From the top of the bare ash-tree,/ Over the acres whistles / With beak of yellow blee . [...]
  • * 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 :
    • Then the captain, young Lord Leigh, with his eyes so grey of blee , — Toll slowly.
  • Complexion.
  • Form, texture, consistency.
  • * 1898 , Algernon Charles Swinburne, The heptalogia :
    • [...] I am thrilled half cosmically through by cryptophantic surgings / Till the rhythmic hills roar silent through a spongious kind of blee [...]
  • General resemblance, likeness; aspect, appearance, look.
  • * That boy has a strong blee of his father. — Robert Forby

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