bluet

noun

1. (countable)Any of several different plants, from several genera, having bluish flowers.

   “My breathing shakes the bluet like a breeze ….”

   “They passed undulating fields of wheat speckled with the confetti of poppies and bluets.”

2. (countable, uncountable)Any of several different plants, from several genera, having bluish flowers.
3. (countable, uncountable)Any of several different plants, from several genera, having bluish flowers.
4. (countable)Any of several small damselfly species, including the genera Coenagrion and Enallagma.
5. (historical, uncountable, usually)A kind of blue woolen cloth.

   “For the Feast of the Assumption, cloth of bluet and of rayed (i.e., striped) scarlet was bought for the robes of the Prince [Edward] and Sir John de Bretagne.”

   “Bogo de Clare’s esquires were bought three cloths of scarlet ray and three of yellow cloth, together with furs and hoods of budge (lambskin). Bogo himself had bluet (blue cloth) and perse (dark-blue cloth), […]”

   “The fact that both words [bleu and bluet] have a clear connection with the colour blue leads to the suggestion that bluets could be of any price, provenance, quality, size, or any other feature, but they all had colour in common. […] It is safe to assume that bluets were woad-dyed woollens and it should be understood that a single vat of woad dye could produce a huge range of blues.”