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The adjective is attested earlier than the noun, yet it remains unclear whether the fabric (which often retained the spelling plunket) gave its name to the color or the other way around. The word is similar to blanket (“cloth”), inviting speculation that it derives (like that word) from Old French blanchet, blanquet (“whitish”), but the most common form even as late as Early Modern English was blunket, and some early works seem to identify it as dark red or violet, which makes that theory phonologically and semantically problematic.", "forms": [ { "form": "more blunket", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "most blunket", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "blunket (comparative more blunket, superlative most blunket)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "_dis": "90 4 6", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "89 5 7", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup", "parents": [ "Entries with topic categories using raw markup", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "glosses": [ "Gray; grayish or light blue." ], "id": "en-blunket-en-adj-0SqbNDGI", "links": [ [ "Gray", "gray" ], [ "grayish", "grayish" ], [ "light blue", "light blue" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) Gray; grayish or light blue." ], "tags": [ "obsolete" ] } ], "word": "blunket" } { "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "plunket", "pos": "n" }, "expansion": "Middle English plunket (noun)", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "plunket", "pos": "adj", "t": "of a blue or greyish colour" }, "expansion": "plunket (“of a blue or greyish colour”, adj)", "name": "m" }, { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "*plunken", "t": "to cover with lead or lead-colouring" }, "expansion": "*plunken (“to cover with lead or lead-colouring”)", "name": "m" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "fro", "3": "plonquier" }, "expansion": "Old French plonquier", "name": "der" }, { "args": { "1": "fro", "2": "plonchier", "t": "to cover with lead" }, "expansion": "plonchier (“to cover with lead”)", "name": "m" }, { "args": { "1": "fro", "2": "plunkié" }, "expansion": "Old French plunkié", "name": "cog" }, { "args": { "1": "fro", "2": "plonquié", "t": "lead-coloured\", also \"grey cloth" }, "expansion": "plonquié (“lead-coloured\", also \"grey cloth”)", "name": "m" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "la", "3": "plumbum", "t": "lead" }, "expansion": "Latin plumbum (“lead”)", "name": "der" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "plunket" }, "expansion": "plunket", "name": "m" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "blanket", "3": "", "4": "cloth" }, "expansion": "blanket (“cloth”)", "name": "m" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "fro", "3": "blanchet", "4": "blanchet, blanquet", "5": "whitish" }, "expansion": "Old French blanchet, blanquet (“whitish”)", "name": "der" } ], "etymology_text": "From Middle English plunket (noun), from plunket (“of a blue or greyish colour”, adj), perhaps the past participle of *plunken (“to cover with lead or lead-colouring”), from Old French plonquier, plonchier (“to cover with lead”), in imitation of Old French plunkié, plonquié (“lead-coloured\", also \"grey cloth”); ultimately from Latin plumbum (“lead”). The adjective is attested earlier than the noun, yet it remains unclear whether the fabric (which often retained the spelling plunket) gave its name to the color or the other way around. The word is similar to blanket (“cloth”), inviting speculation that it derives (like that word) from Old French blanchet, blanquet (“whitish”), but the most common form even as late as Early Modern English was blunket, and some early works seem to identify it as dark red or violet, which makes that theory phonologically and semantically problematic.", "forms": [ { "form": "blunkets", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "~" }, "expansion": "blunket (countable and uncountable, plural blunkets)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "_dis": "36 56 8", "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Colors", "orig": "en:Colors", "parents": [ "Light", "Vision", "Energy", "Senses", "Nature", "Perception", "All topics", "Body", "Fundamental", "Human" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "text": "For quotations using this term, see Citations:blunket." } ], "glosses": [ "A color, generally a light bluish gray or blue or gray, but sometimes seemingly a dark red or violet." ], "id": "en-blunket-en-noun-MNQBdGS4", "links": [ [ "bluish gray", "blue-gray#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) A color, generally a light bluish gray or blue or gray, but sometimes seemingly a dark red or violet." ], "tags": [ "countable", "obsolete", "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [], "examples": [ { "ref": "1672, chapter 27, in Janua Linguarum Reserata: Sive, Omnium Scientiarum & Linguarum Seminarium: […] The Gate of Languages Unlocked […] formerly translated by Tho. 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The adjective is attested earlier than the noun, yet it remains unclear whether the fabric (which often retained the spelling plunket) gave its name to the color or the other way around. The word is similar to blanket (“cloth”), inviting speculation that it derives (like that word) from Old French blanchet, blanquet (“whitish”), but the most common form even as late as Early Modern English was blunket, and some early works seem to identify it as dark red or violet, which makes that theory phonologically and semantically problematic.", "forms": [ { "form": "more blunket", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "most blunket", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "blunket (comparative more blunket, superlative most blunket)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English terms with obsolete senses" ], "glosses": [ "Gray; grayish or light blue." ], "links": [ [ "Gray", "gray" ], [ "grayish", "grayish" ], [ "light blue", "light blue" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) Gray; grayish or light blue." ], "tags": [ "obsolete" ] } ], "word": "blunket" } { "categories": [ "English adjectives", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English entries with topic categories using raw markup", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms derived from Latin", "English terms derived from Middle English", "English terms derived from Old French", "English terms inherited from Middle English", "English uncountable nouns", "en:Colors" ], "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "enm", "3": "plunket", "pos": "n" }, "expansion": "Middle English plunket (noun)", "name": "inh" }, { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "plunket", "pos": "adj", "t": "of a blue or greyish colour" }, "expansion": "plunket (“of a blue or greyish colour”, adj)", "name": "m" }, { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "*plunken", "t": "to cover with lead or lead-colouring" }, "expansion": "*plunken (“to cover with lead or lead-colouring”)", "name": "m" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "fro", "3": "plonquier" }, "expansion": "Old French plonquier", "name": "der" }, { "args": { "1": "fro", "2": "plonchier", "t": "to cover with lead" }, "expansion": "plonchier (“to cover with lead”)", "name": "m" }, { "args": { "1": "fro", "2": "plunkié" }, "expansion": "Old French plunkié", "name": "cog" }, { "args": { "1": "fro", "2": "plonquié", "t": "lead-coloured\", also \"grey cloth" }, "expansion": "plonquié (“lead-coloured\", also \"grey cloth”)", "name": "m" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "la", "3": "plumbum", "t": "lead" }, "expansion": "Latin plumbum (“lead”)", "name": "der" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "plunket" }, "expansion": "plunket", "name": "m" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "blanket", "3": "", "4": "cloth" }, "expansion": "blanket (“cloth”)", "name": "m" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "fro", "3": "blanchet", "4": "blanchet, blanquet", "5": "whitish" }, "expansion": "Old French blanchet, blanquet (“whitish”)", "name": "der" } ], "etymology_text": "From Middle English plunket (noun), from plunket (“of a blue or greyish colour”, adj), perhaps the past participle of *plunken (“to cover with lead or lead-colouring”), from Old French plonquier, plonchier (“to cover with lead”), in imitation of Old French plunkié, plonquié (“lead-coloured\", also \"grey cloth”); ultimately from Latin plumbum (“lead”). The adjective is attested earlier than the noun, yet it remains unclear whether the fabric (which often retained the spelling plunket) gave its name to the color or the other way around. The word is similar to blanket (“cloth”), inviting speculation that it derives (like that word) from Old French blanchet, blanquet (“whitish”), but the most common form even as late as Early Modern English was blunket, and some early works seem to identify it as dark red or violet, which makes that theory phonologically and semantically problematic.", "forms": [ { "form": "blunkets", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "~" }, "expansion": "blunket (countable and uncountable, plural blunkets)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English terms with obsolete senses" ], "examples": [ { "text": "For quotations using this term, see Citations:blunket." } ], "glosses": [ "A color, generally a light bluish gray or blue or gray, but sometimes seemingly a dark red or violet." ], "links": [ [ "bluish gray", "blue-gray#English" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(obsolete) A color, generally a light bluish gray or blue or gray, but sometimes seemingly a dark red or violet." ], "tags": [ "countable", "obsolete", "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [ "English terms with obsolete senses", "English terms with quotations", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1672, chapter 27, in Janua Linguarum Reserata: Sive, Omnium Scientiarum & Linguarum Seminarium: […] The Gate of Languages Unlocked […] formerly translated by Tho. 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