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Blaise - definition and meaning
Definitions
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proper noun given name .
Etymologies
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Borrowed from Old French Blaise in the Middle Ages and revived partly due to the modern French equivalent, from Latin Blasius .
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Modesty Blaise is the mother of all action heroines.
Archive 2010-02-01 Blue Tyson 2010
Running an armed hold-up scam gang around Modesty Blaise is not too bright, particularly when she has friends involved she'd like to give a lot of money to.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: A Perfect Night To Break Your Neck - Peter O'Donnell Blue Tyson 2008
Running an armed hold-up scam gang around Modesty Blaise is not too bright, particularly when she has friends involved she'd like to give a lot of money to.
Superhero Prose Fiction: Modesty Blaise - 06 Pieces Of Modesty Blue Tyson 2008
Running an armed hold-up scam gang around Modesty Blaise is not too bright, particularly when she has friends involved she'd like to give a lot of money to.
Superhero Prose Fiction: Modesty Blaise - 6 Pieces of Modesty 4 A Perfect Night To Break Your Neck Blue Tyson 2008
Running an armed hold-up scam gang around Modesty Blaise is not too bright, particularly when she has friends involved she'd like to give a lot of money to.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Pieces Of Modesty - Peter O'Donnell Blue Tyson 2008
Moya, with the addition of a six-minute field recording of a rant on a public street, attributed to someone called Blaise Bailey Finnegan III.
The Guardian World News 2009
CA: Riverside County Columnist - No time to be 'Blaise ' about voting LINK
'Daily Voting News' For April 17, 2007 2007
'William Guthrie was a great melancholian,' says Wodrow, and as we read that we are reminded of some other great melancholians, such as Blaise
Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents Alexander Whyte 1878
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, the inventors of the medium, were championed and inspired by poets such as Blaise Cendrars, Pierre Reverdy, and Guillaume Apollinaire, the last of whose verbal experiments invariably entailed play with typography - arrangement of words on the page could be as much a visual as a verbal gambit.
New York Sun - All Articles 2008
"Blaise " and mistake her for a philosopher or mathematician or maybe a Catholic saint with a throat cult.
Other Crap 2008
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