bluets

Noun

bluet (countable and uncountable, plural bluets)

1. (countable) Any of several different plants, from several genera, having bluish flowers.
   • My breathing shakes the bluet like a breeze ….1913, Robert Frost, 'The Vantage Point'
   1. Centaurea, a plant genus in the family Asteraceae
   2. Several plant genera in the family Rubiaceae, notably Houstonia and Oldenlandiopsis.
2. (countable) Any of several small damselfly species, including the genera Coenagrion and Enallagma.
3. (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.1899, Walter Phelps Dodge, “[Piers] Gaveston’s Early Days with Edward of Carnarvon”, in Piers Gaveston: A Chapter of Early Constitutional History, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, →OCLC, page 28