blanch

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /blɑːnt͡ʃ/, /blænt͡ʃ/ Rhymes: -ɑːntʃ, -æntʃ === Etymology 1 === 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”). ==== Verb ==== blanch (third-person singular simple present blanches, present participle blanching, simple past and past participle blanched) (intransitive) To grow or become white. (transitive) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach. (transitive, cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water. (transitive) 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. (transitive) To bleach by excluding light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants by earthing them up or tying them together. (transitive) To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding. (transitive) To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining) (intransitive) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin. (transitive, figuratively) To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten; Synonym: palliate c. 1680, John Tillotson, The indispensable necessity of the knowledge of the Holy Scripture Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== blanch holding parboil ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === Variant of blench, of same Proto-Indo-European origin. ==== Verb ==== blanch (third-person singular simple present blanches, present participle blanching, simple past and past participle blanched) To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed. 1624-39, Sir Henry Wotton, Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (published 1651), page 343 I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way. To cause to turn aside or back. to blanch a deer To use evasion. == Haitian Creole == === Etymology === From French blanche (“white”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /blãʃ/ === Adjective === blanch white Synonym: blan == Ladin == === Etymology === From Early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish. Compare Italian bianco. === Adjective === blanch white