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English
Etymology 1
French bluette (literally “little spark”)
Noun
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
blue + -ette
Noun
bluette (plural bluettes)
- A kind of satinette pigeon.
French
Etymology
From beluette, from Old French belue (“spark”).
Pronunciation
Noun
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
Italian
Noun
bluette m (invariable)
- a colour/color between an intense sky blue and an electric blue
Adjective
bluette (invariable)
- describing such a colour/color