blanquette
English
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editEtymology
editBorrowed from French blanquette, from Provençal blanqueto, a diminutive of blanc (“white”), derived, through early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).
Compare blanket.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editblanquette (countable and uncountable, plural blanquettes)
- A white meat stew in which neither the meat nor the sauce is browned.
- Hypernyms: ragout, stew
- Hyponym: blanquette de veau
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French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Provençal blanqueto, a diminutive of blanc (“white”), derived, through early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”). Equivalent to blanc (“white”) + -ette (feminine diminutive suffix). Doublet of blanchette.
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editNoun
editblanquette f (plural blanquettes)
- (uncountable) a variety of white grapes
- Synonym: chasselas doré
- Hypernym: raisin
- (countable or uncountable) sparkling white wine from Languedoc made from white grapes of the "mauzac" variety
- Hypernyms: vin, vin blanc, vin mousseux
- Hyponym: blanquette de Limoux
- (countable) a type of summer white pear
- Hypernym: poire
- (countable or uncountable) the first clear distillation of a brandy
- Hypernym: eau-de-vie
- (countable or uncountable) blanquette (white meat stew which is not browned)
- Hypernym: ragoût
- Hyponyms: blanquette d’agneau, blanquette de veau
- (uncountable, slang, popular) silverware
- Synonym: argenterie
Further reading
edit- “blanquette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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