blanc
Meaning
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- white color
- blank, unused
- blank, without expression
Concepts
white person
make white
very white
become white
light-colored
light grey
breast of chicken
european
blank shell
look-through
silent moment
white of egg
place of indeterminacy
blank space
Synonyms
gris clair
très blanc
devenir blanc
espace en blanc
bian
de couleur blanche
blanc d’œuf
Frequency
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.
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