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Definition of Blushet
1. n. A modest girl.
Definition of Blushet
1. Noun. (obsolete) A modest girl. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blushet
1. a blushing girl [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blushet
Literary usage of Blushet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"... occur in Syr Gawayne. To blush up, to clear up, to be fine, spoken of the
weather. blushet. One who blushes. BLUST. Erysipelatous inflammation. ..."
2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"2 (last speech). blushet (only used by B. Jonson), a little blusher, a modest
girl, Staple of News, ii. ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"blushet. (Apparently peculiar to B. Jonson.) See Todd. One who blushes. t HOARD.
The term board answers to the modern table, but it was often moveable, ..."
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