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Signification (Anglais)

  1. (archaic) bright
  2. spotlessly clean, shining, polished
  3. bare, naked, uncovered
  4. pure, sheer
  5. (colloquial) broke, out of money
  6. being a player’s last one of a respective grouping of cards (which means that the card is unprotected when the player must follow suit in trick-taking games)

Fréquence

C2
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/blaŋk/
Étymologie (Anglais)

In summary

From Middle High German blanc, from Old High German blanc (“shining, bright”), from Proto-West Germanic *blank. Doublet of Plenk.

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