bleynte

Middle English

Verb

bleynte

  1. past participle of blenchen
    • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Knight's Tale: 219-21.
      He cast his eye upon Emelya,
      And therwithal he bleynte, and cryede "A!"
      As though he stongen were unto the herte.

References
  • bleynte in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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