blanch means A female given name from French, a less common spelling of Blanche.
blanch is pronounced /blɑːnt͡ʃ/.
Etymology
From Middle English blaunchen, from Old French blanchir, from Old French blanc (“white”), from Early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish *blank, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”). Cognates Cognate with blench (“to deceive, to trick”) through Proto-Indo-European, whence other etymology of blanch.
name
- A female given name from French, a less common spelling of Blanche.
verb
- To grow or become white.e.g.“His cheek blanched with fear.”
- To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.e.g.“to blanch linen”
- To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
- To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.
- To bleach by excluding light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants by earthing them up or tying them together.
- To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding.e.g.“to blanch almonds”
- To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
- To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
- To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;e.g.“c. 1680, John Tillotson, The indispensable necessity of the knowledge of the Holy Scripture
Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things.”
- To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.e.g.“Ifs and ands to qualify words of treason; whereby every man might express his malice, and blanch his danger.” — 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →
- To cause to turn aside or back.e.g.“to blanch a deer”
- To use evasion.e.g.“Books will speak plain, when counsellors blanch.” — 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Counsel”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
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