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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1375, 1500-1585, 1652-1687
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Blome, Blume, n. Also: blowm(e, blwme, blewm(e. [Northern (& north midl.) ME. blom, blome, ON. blóm neut. and blóme, blómi masc.] A blossom or flower. (Rare and late in prose.) Also in comb. with coloured. 1375 Barb. v. 10.
Burgeonys and brycht blwmys [E. blomys] 1375 Ib. xvi. 68.
Lewis … And blomys bricht c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 96.
Euiry blome on branch … Opnyt c1500-c1512 Id. xlviii. 154.
Cum, blowme of joy 1513 Doug. xi. ii. 23.
Of blumys apon a byng 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. vii.
Quhare Flora maid the tendir blewmis spreid c1552 Lynd. Mon. 183.
With blomes breckand on the tender bewis 1570 Satirical Poems xv. 18.
Thy fair blew blumis a1585 Maitland Quarto MS lxix. 54.
The blomes quhyte and reid 1652 Lamont Diary 45.
The blowms of the pease wallowed a fourtnight before Lammis 1687 Montgomery Mem. 339.
Ane bloum coloured satin night bag
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