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2 perseus, persus [ML; ME, AN pers < persicus] , (dark) blue; (as sb.) (dark) blue colour. b (as sb. m. or n.) (dark) blue cloth. ~eus, blaewen Ælf. Gl. 163; 1259 ad colorem ejusdem lane faciendum nigriorem, ad similitudinem coloris ~i Rec. Leic. I 84; 1301 utantur ‥ vestibus ‥ unius coloris, utpote de ~eo Reg. Wint. I 129; 1309 pannos burneti, ~ei, et viridi [sic] coloris (CoramR) Law Merch. II 82; 1315 pannos de ~eo et medleto (Ib.) Ib. 87; 1328 mantellum cum duobus capiciis de ~o (Invent.) Reg. Exon. 566; 1349 in roba pro corpore regis de colore ~o in grano (KR Ac) Arch. XXXI 18; 13‥ pannarius ‥ habeat ‥ burnetam nigram vel sanguineam, ‥ ~um, bluetam (Nominale) Neues Archiv IV 340.  b 1265 pro j ~o comitisse retondendo xij d. Manners 10; 1287 unum tabbardum de ~o precii quinque solidorum (CourtR St. Ives Fair) Law Merch. I 21.

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