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blé

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Durant la Révolution , le canal sera comblé et servira de champ de blé .

During the Revolution, the canal will be filled and will serve as a wheat field.

(masculine) wheat, corn
(masculine, slang) dough, cash

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/ble/

Inherited from Middle French

Inherited from Old French

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Inherited from Middle French blé, from Old French blet, from Early Medieval Latin blādum, from Frankish *blād (“field produce”), from Proto-Germanic *blēduz (“flower, leaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to bloom, blossom”). Cognate with Old English blǣd (“produce, blossom, fruit”), Old High German blāt (“blossoming, labour pains”).