blueth

alternative bluth

1. rareuncountableThe state of being blue; blueness.First known use 18th c.

   The sky and the distances, as you looked down the Etschthal, had what in Devonshire is called the "blueth" of Italy.

   1905 April, Catholic World

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   I have long been mortified that for these three years you have seen it only in winter: it is now in the height of its greenth, blueth, gloomth, honey-suckle, and seringahood.

   1754, Horace Walpole, letter, 8 Jun 1754

   […] where it should appear lightly touched with blue. The bluth of the cheeks should rather be rich than glaring: […]

   1772, The Lady's Magazine Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, volume 3

   One sits — a small "one" among twenty thousand — drowned in liquid blueth (there ought to be such a word as blueth, even if there isn't) and drowned also in heavenly floods of music.

   1928, Alice M Williamson, Alice in Movieland