blanscue

English

Noun

blanscue (plural blanscues)

  1. (obsolete, dialect) a misfortune, an unforeseen accident

References

  • James Orchard Halliwell (1846), “BLANSCUE”, in A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century. [...] In Two Volumes, volumes I (A–I), London: John Russell Smith, [], →OCLC, page 183, column 1.

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