bliaut
English
Statue of a woman wearing a bliaut.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbliːˌoʊ/
Noun
bliaut (plural bliauts)
- (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.
French
Etymology
From Middle French bliaut, from Old French bliaut.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bli.jo/
Descendants
- → English: bliaut
Further reading
- “bliaut”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Alternative forms
- blialt, bliaud, bliant, bliaunt
Etymology
From Frankish *blīwafalþ, from *blīu (“colour, hue, blee”) + *falþan (“to fold”). Cognate with Old Occitan blial.
Noun
bliaut m (oblique plural bliauz or bliautz, nominative singular bliauz or bliautz, nominative plural bliaut)
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