Etymology

bluette

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French bluette
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bluette · noun1

  1. French · borrowed frombluette
  2. English todaybluette

From French bluette (literally “little spark”).

bluette · noun, adjective2

From blue + -ette (diminutive suffix). For the color, compare Italian bluette.

bluette · noun3

From blue + -ette (“a person, especially a woman, with the specified hair color”), after brunette.

Bluette · proper noun4

From blue + -ette.

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