blanc

Meaning

Adj

1. white color
2. blank, unused
3. blank, without expression

Noun

1. white (color)
2. silence while in a dialog
3. empty space, on a leaf of paper or in a form
4. (informal) white wine
5. white person, person with a white complexion
6. albumen, egg white
7. white meat
8. correction fluid, whiteout, Tippex

Concepts

white

blank

space

Caucasian

pure

European

white person

breast

egg white

white man

gap

clean

light-colored

become white

make white

very white

light grey

off-white

clear

silvery

breast of chicken

cracker

imitation

mock

sham

target

look-through

lacuna

place of indeterminacy

european

albumen

whiten

ashen

blanched

bloodless

livid

whitened

white-hot

lily-white

snowy

blank shell

dummy

flannel

gabardine

tweed

whiteness

blank space

place

distance

silent moment

white of egg

ofay

White

Pronounced as (IPA)

/blɑ̃/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French blanc, from Old French blanc, from Early Medieval Latin blancus, a borrowing of Frankish *blank, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”).
Akin to Old High German blanch (“bright, white”) (German blank (“polished, naked”)), Old Norse blankr (“white”) (Danish blank (“bright, shiny”)), Dutch blank (“white, shining”). More at blink, blank.

Sentences

La tour est peinte en blanc et le toit de la lanterne est noire .

The tower is painted white and the roof of the lantern is black.

C’est pourquoi je dis que l’on mange notre pain blanc .

That's why I say we eat our white bread.

Le riz basmati existe en brun ou en blanc .

Basmati rice comes in brown or white.

À l'origine , dans l'imprimerie au plomb , ce blanc latéral était fixe .

Originally, in lead printing, this side white was fixed.

Ce hérisson à ventre blanc est originaire des régions côtières d'Afrique du nord .

This white-bellied hedgehog is native to the coastal regions of North Africa.