visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827)
"Blake's illustrations of his own poems brought a unique visual style to his visionary poetry."
To become pale.
"Her face blaked with shock when she saw the dark figure approaching in the fog."
Pale; wan; sallow; yellow.
"Her face turned blake from hours spent staring at the bright sun without a hat."
"The blake wind blew straight through our open windows and rattled the loose panes with its icy bite."
An English surname, from nicknames.
"The famous poet William Blake was born into a family that carried his father's nickname as their surname."
The word "blake" comes from Old English and Old Norse roots that originally meant pale or wan. It traveled into Middle English with this same sense of paleness before evolving to its current spelling.