blite
AmericanEtymology
Origin of blite
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin blitum < Greek blíton
Example Sentences
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The overlapping black-and-white contrasts become blite and whack with all the choreographic changes — spectacular.
From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2016
Come on, Wilks," he cried; "it isn't blite, but something better.
From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by Campbell, John
I must not pass over one of our greatest ornaments, the strawberry blite, strawberry-bearing spinach, or Indian strawberry, as it is variously named.
From The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America by Traill, Catharine Parr Strickland
It'll be strawberry blite, I'll wager, Blitum capitatum, and a fine thing it is.
From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by Campbell, John
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