# blanch
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /blɑːnt͡ʃ/, /blænt͡ʃ/
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    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”).
Cognate with blench (“to deceive, to trick”) through Proto-Indo-European, whence other etymology of blanch.

#### Verb

blanch (third-person singular simple present blanches, present participle blanching, simple past and past participle blanched)
* (intransitive) To grow or become white.
    His cheek blanched with fear.
    The rose blanches in the sun.
** 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171:Nurse Cramer's face blanched and she turned to Dunbar desperately for aid.
** 1984, Tom Clancy, “The Seventeenth Day: Sunday, 19 December”, in The Hunt for Red October, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, →ISBN, page 456:"Where is the target?" "Bearing zero-four-five, Comrade. Bearing is constant," the michman replied, "closing rapidly." Tupolev blanched. "Left full rudder, all ahead flank!"
* (transitive) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
    to blanch linen
    Age has blanched his hair.
* (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.
    to blanch almonds
* (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

* blanchable
* blanched almond
* blancher
* blanch up
* emblanch
* preblanch

##### 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.
** 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:Ifs and ands to qualify words of treason; whereby every man might express his malice, and blanch his danger.
** 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.
** 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Counsel”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:Books will speak plain, when counsellors blanch.

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

From French blanche (“white”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /blãʃ/

### Adjective

blanch
* white
    Synonym: blan

## Ladin
### Etymology

From Early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish. Compare Italian bianco.

### Adjective

blanch
* white