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PRONUNCIATION:

(gleed)

MEANING:

noun: A glowing coal.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old English gled. Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghel- (to shine), which also gave us yellow, gold, glimmer, gloaming, gloze, glimpse, and glass. Earliest documented use: before 1150.

USAGE:

“Alexander loves and desires her who is sighing for his love. ... Their love grows and increases continually; but the one feels shame before the other; and each conceals and hides this love so that neither flame nor smoke is seen from the gleed beneath the ashes. But the heat is none the less for that; rather the heat lasts longer below the gleed than above it.”
Chrétien de Troyes (Translation: L.J. Gardiner); Cliges; Cooper Square Publishers; 1966.

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