[Ads-l] Youneverknow: "bleb"

[Wilson Gray]

"Now, the leeches, in sucking, do engender and leave behind little _blebs_
or blisters full of blood."

Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies
Brantôme, Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de, 1540-1614
Translated by A[lfred].R[ichard]. Allinson in 2 vols.
Charles Carrington: Paris, 1901-1902

Until ca. 45 minutes ago, I was under the impression that I personally had
invented the word, "bleb," used in just this meaning of "small wound"  and
that I was the only person in the history of the English language ever to
use it.
-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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