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blanc

blanc noun: a white person; a person of European or Caucasian descent.

Noun

blanc (countable and uncountable, plural blancs)

  1. (ethnic, offensive, slur) A white person; a person of European or Caucasian descent.
  2. A white sauce of fat, broth, and vegetables, used especially for braised meat.
  3. A white cosmetic.
    • Had Miss Fipps not told her what they were, she would have taken them for ladies of fashion. In an age when women wore less than they had ever done but wore just as much blanc and rouge, there was little difference between the ladies in the side boxes and the ladies in the centre.2013, M. C. Beaton, Rake's Progress
    • A guest at a party in 1764 was described as wearing on her face "rather too much yellow mixed with the red; she . . . would look very agreeable if she added blanc to the rouge instead of gamboge."2015, Richard Corson, James Glavan, Beverly Gore Norcross, Stage Makeup, page 322

Proper noun capitalized: Blanc

Blanc

  1. A surname from French.

Forms of blanc

pluralblancs

Origin of blanc

Borrowed from French blanc (“white”). Doublet of blank.

Phrases with blanc

Questions about blanc

What does blanc mean?
Blanc means a white person; a person of European or Caucasian descent.
What part of speech is blanc?
Blanc can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of blanc?
The plural of blanc is blancs.

Words near blanc in the dictionary

  1. Blampied
  2. blams
  3. blan
  4. blanagram
  5. blanagrams
  6. blanc
  7. blanc de chine
  8. Blanc de Hotot
  9. Blanc de Hotots
  10. blanc mange
  11. blanc-manger

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