blunket

The English word “blunket” has 3 meanings listed here.

adjective

Gray; grayish or light blue.

noun

A color, generally a light bluish gray or blue or gray, but sometimes seemingly a dark red or violet.
A cloth, or kind of cloth (blanket cloth), generally but not always of this color.

Etymology

From Middle English plunket (noun), from plunket (“of a blue or greyish colour”, adjective), perhaps the past participle of *plunken (“to cover with lead or lead-colouring”), from Old French plonquier, plonchier (“to cover with lead”), in imitation of Old French plunkié, plonquié (“lead-coloured", also "grey cloth”); ultimately from Latin plumbum (“lead”). The adjective is attested earlier than…

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