bliaut

• bliaud
• bliaus

From French bliaut.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbliːˌoʊ/

bliaut (plural bliauts)

1. (historical) A unisex overgarment worn in 12th-century Western Europe, featuring voluminous skirts and horizontal puckering or sometimes pleating across a snugly fitted underbust abdomen.

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• tabuli

• blaude, bliaud

Inherited from Middle French bliaut, from Old French bliaut.

• IPA^(key): /bli.jo/

bliaut m (plural bliauts)

1. (historical) a bliaut; an overgarment worn by men & women in the Middle Ages

• → English: bliaut

• “bliaut”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• blutai

• blialt, bliaud, bliant, bliaunt

From Frankish *blīwafalþ, from *blīu (“colour, hue, blee”) +‎ *falþan (“to fold”). Cognate with Old Occitan blial.

bliaut oblique singular, m (oblique plural bliauz or bliautz, nominative singular bliauz or bliautz, nominative plural bliaut)

1. bliaut

• Middle French: bliaut
  • French: bliaut, blaude, bliaud
    • → English: bliaut
• → Middle English: bleaunt, blehand, blihand
  • English: bleaunt
• → Middle High German: blīant, blīalt
• → Medieval Latin: blialdus
• → Galician: brial