bloi

Of Germanic origin, compare blont.

bloi m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bloie)

1. an uncertain color
   • c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland‎, lines 10–23:

     Li reis Marsilie esteit en Sarraguce. / Alez en est en un verger suz l'umbre; / Sur un perrun de marbre bloi se culchet, / Envirun lui plus de vint milie humes.

     The King Marsile was is Zaragoza. He went in a garden beneath the shade; laid himself on a large blonde [or blue] marble rock, around him more than twenty thousand man.

   1. blond, bright yellow

      Synonym: blont

      • 12^th Century, Béroul, Tristan et Iseut:

        Yseut, par cest mien chief le bloi.

        Yseult, by my head, the blond.

   2. or perhaps blue

• Joseph Bédier (1927), “bloi”, in Glossaire de la Chanson de Roland‎ (in French)