Borrowed fromFrenchblanc(“white”).Doublet ofblank.

blanc (countable anduncountable,pluralblancs)

1. Awhitecosmetic.
   • 2013, M. C. Beaton,Rake's Progress:

     Had Miss Fipps not told her what they were, she would have taken them for ladies of fashion. In an age when women wore less than they had ever done but wore just as muchblanc and rouge, there was little difference between the ladies in the side boxes and the ladies in the centre.

   • 2015, Richard Corson, James Glavan, Beverly Gore Norcross,Stage Makeup, page322:

     A guest at a party in 1764 was described as wearing on her face "rather too much yellow mixed with the red; she . . . would look very agreeable if she addedblanc to the rouge instead of gamboge."

   • 2020, Amelia Rauser,The Age of Undress, page127:

     A white mask of cosmetic face paint, orblanc, had long been the norm for formally dressed ladies in the eighteenth century, but by the 1790s the deliberate artifice of the white mask was supplanted by a desire for a "natural" whiteness without additional coloring. "Rouge is no longer used; pallor is more interesting," wrote one commentator in 1804; "The ladies only use theblanc, and leave the rouge to the men."

2. A whitesauce offat,broth, andvegetables, used especially forbraisedmeat.

Inherited fromEarly Medieval Latinblancus, fromProto-Germanic*blankaz.

• IPA^(key):(Central)[ˈblaŋ]
• IPA^(key):(Balearic,Valencia)[ˈblaŋk]

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blanc (feminineblanca,masculine pluralblancs,feminine pluralblanques)

1. white

blanc m (pluralblancs)

1. white
2. target(for shooting practice)
3. blank(empty space)

• “blanc”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• “blanc” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• blank

FromEarly Medieval Latinblancus, perhaps via OldVenetanblanco. Compare alsoItalianbianco.

blanc m (pluralblance,feminineblanca)

1. white

   Synonym:jualb

• Bartoli, Matteo (1906)Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published2000

• bllanc(ORB, narrow)

Inherited fromEarly Medieval Latinblancus.

blanc (feminineblanche,masculine pluralblancs,feminine pluralblanches)(ORB, broad)

1. white

• blanc in DicoFranPro:Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – ondicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• bl(l)anc in Lo trèsor Arpitan – onarpitan.eu

Inherited fromMiddle Frenchblanc, fromOld Frenchblanc,branc, fromEarly Medieval Latinblancus, a borrowing ofFrankish*blank, fromProto-Germanic*blankaz(“bright, shining, blinding, white”), fromProto-Indo-European*bʰleyǵ-(“to shine”).

Akin toOld High Germanblanch(“bright, white”) (Germanblank(“polished, naked”)),Old Norseblankr(“white”) (Danishblank(“bright, shiny”)),Dutchblank(“white, shining”). More atblink,blank.

• (France)IPA^(key):/blɑ̃/
• (Quebec)IPA^(key):/blã/

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blanc (feminineblanche,masculine pluralblancs,feminine pluralblanches)

1. white color

   Ce lait estblanc. ―This milk is white.

2. blank,unused
3. (figurative, one's look)blank, withoutexpression

blanc m (pluralblancs)

1. white(color)
2. silence while in a dialog
3. empty space, on a leaf of paper or in a form

   Inscrivez votre nom dans le blanc en bas de la page.

   Write your name in the blank at the bottom of the page.

4. (informal) whitewine

   Le poisson se mange avec dublanc.

   fish is eaten with white wine.

5. white person, person with a white complexion
   • 2015, Ilham Maad,Noir, pas black‎^[1]:

     C’est qu’en France, lesblancs n’existent pas et par contre la façon de parler des nonblancs existe et évolue avec le temps. Parce qu’effectivement, d’abord on était sur des termes purement et simplement racistes avec « bamboula, negro, nègre, bicot, bougnoule » et puis après ça a évolué et on est arrivé à « black, beur »… Donc je sais pas quand est-ce que ça a commencé exactement, moi je marque ça aux années 80, le hip hop, voilà, la black music…

     In France, there are noWhites, but names for non-Whites are constantly evolving. First we had terms that were purely and simply racist, like jigaboo, negro, nigger, coon, sambo... That evolved until we got to Black, Brownie... I'm not sure when that came in, but I guess it was the 1980s, with hip-hop and "Black music."

7. albumen,egg white

   Synonyms:albumen,blanc d’œuf,glaire(archaic)

8. white meat
9. correction fluid,whiteout,Tippex

• (correction fluid)blanco,correcteur liquide,tipex

• blanc de blancs
• blanc de noirs

• Antillean Creole:blan
• Guianese Creole:blan
• Haitian Creole:blan
• Karipúna Creole French:blã
• Louisiana Creole:blan,blon
• Seychellois Creole:blan
• Tayo:bla
• → Romanian:blanc

• “blanc”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Inherited fromEarly Medieval Latinblancus.

blanc

1. white

• IPA^(key):/blaŋk/

blanc (comparativeplus blanc,superlativeleplus blanc)

1. white(having a light colour, reflecting all light)
2. white(having a light skin colour, mostly associated with European descent)

• blanchir

• blanco

FromOld Frenchblanc.

blanc m (uncountable)

1. white

blanc m (feminine singularblanche,masculine pluralblancs,feminine pluralblanches)

1. white

• French:blanc (see there for further descendants)

• blan(Mistralian)

FromOld Occitanblanc, fromEarly Medieval Latinblancus (compare Catalan and Frenchblanc, Spanishblanco, Portuguesebranco, Italianbianco), fromProto-Germanic*blankaz(“bright, shining, blinding, white”), fromProto-Indo-European*bhleg-(“to shine”).

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blanc m (feminine singularblanca,masculine pluralblancs,feminine pluralblancas)

1. white

• blonc,blaunc

FromProto-Germanic*blankaz(“bright", "shining", "blinding", "white”), fromProto-Indo-European*bhleg-(“to shine”). Akin toOld High Germanblanch,planch(“bright", "white”), henceGermanblank(“blank", "white”),Old Norseblankr(“white”), henceDanishblank(“shiny”),Swedishblank(“shiny”),Dutchblank(“white", "shining”).

• IPA^(key):/blɑnk/,[blɑŋk]

blanc

1. white
2. greyish-white,pale,pallid

• blonca,blanca
• blencan

• Middle English:blanke,blonke
  • Scots:blonk

FromEarly Medieval Latinblancus, fromFrankish*blank, fromProto-Germanic*blankaz(“bright, shining, blinding, white”), fromProto-Indo-European*bʰleyǵ-(“to shine”).

Akin to Old High Germanblanch "bright, white" (Germanblank(“blank, white”)), Old Norseblankr(“white”) (Danishblank(“bright, shiny”)), Dutchblank(“white, shining”). More atblink,blind.

• IPA^(key):/blank/

blanc m (oblique and nominative feminine singularblanche)

1. white

blancoblique singular, m (oblique pluralblans,nominative singularblans,nominative pluralblanc)

1. white (color)
   • c.1170,Chrétien de Troyes,Érec et Énide:

     Ses haubers est coverz de sanc:
     De roge i a plus que deblanc.

     His chainmail is covered in blood
     There's more red than white (referring to his white chainmail)

• blanchoier

• Bourguignon:blian
• Champenois:bian
• Gallo:blânc
• Lorrain:bianc
• Middle English:blonc,blank,blaunc,blaunche
  • English:blank
    • → German:Plenk
• Middle French:blanc (see there for further descendants)
• Norman:bllànc,blianc(Jersey),bllaunc(continental Normandy)
• Picard:blanc
• Walloon:blan,blanc

FromEarly Medieval Latinblancus, fromFrankish*blank, fromProto-Germanic*blankaz(“bright, shining, blinding, white”), fromProto-Indo-European*bhleg-(“to shine”).

blanc m (feminine singularblancha,masculine pluralblancs,feminine pluralblanchas)

1. white

• Occitan:blanc

Borrowed fromFrenchblanc.

blanc n (pluralblancuri)

1. white space

• blanc in Academia Română,Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010.→ISBN

FromOld Frenchblanc, fromEarly Medieval Latinblancus, fromFrankish*blank, fromProto-Germanic*blankaz(“bright, shining, blinding, white”), fromProto-Indo-European*bhleg-(“to shine”).

• IPA^(key):/blã/

blancm (feminine singularblanke,masculine pluralblancs,feminine pluralblankes,feminine plural (before noun)blankès)

1. white

blanc m

1. white