Chaucer and the Color Adjective "blew."

Author / Editor
Sayers, William.

Title
Chaucer and the Color Adjective "blew."

Published
Chaucer Review 56.2 (2021): 119-24.

Description
Examines Chaucer's limited use of "blew"/"blue" in depictions of color, focusing on the phrase “teres blewe” in Mars, 8. Notes that the connotation of "blue" with melancholy surfaces later, and traces Chaucer's usage of "blewe" to its Gallo-Romance ancestor "bloi."

Alternative Title
Chaucer Review 56 (2021)

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Complaint of Mars