bloi

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Old French

Etymology

Of Germanic origin, compare blont.

Adjective

bloi m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bloie)

an uncertain color
- c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland‎, 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 marble rock, around him more than twenty thousand man.
1. blond, bright yellow
  Synonym: blont
  - 12^th Century, Béroul, Tristan et Iseut:
    Yseut, par cest mien chief le bloi.
    Yseult, by my head, the blond.
2. or perhaps blue

Declension

Declension of bloi

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Subject	blois	bloie	bloi
Singular	Oblique	bloi	bloie		bloie	bloi
Plural	Subject	bloi	bloies		bloi
Plural	Oblique	blois	bloies		bloies	bloi

References

Joseph Bédier (1927) “bloi”, in Glossaire de la Chanson de Roland‎ (in French)

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