Blanc
[blæŋk]
Definition
(noun.) a white sauce of fat, broth, and vegetables (used especially with braised meat).
Edited by Benson--From WordNet
Examples
- Meg wanted me to bring some of her blanc mange, she makes it very nicely, and Beth thought her cats would be comforting. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Between nine and ten tons of paper are thus wetted daily; and the sheets of the _Times_ printed during a year, if spread out and piled one upon another, would form a column as high as Mont Blanc. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Accept a ribbon red, I beg, For Madam Purrer's tail, And ice cream made by lovely Peg, A Mont Blanc in a pail. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Archer remembered Dallas's wrath at being asked to contemplate Mont Blanc instead of Rheims and Chartres. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He meant the blanc mange, I suppose. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The blanc mange was lumpy, and the strawberries not as ripe as they looked, having been skilfully 'deaconed'. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I remember all three paying me a visit together, and inviting me to visit them in the Rue Mont Blanc. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I'll have blanc mange and strawberries for dessert, and coffee too, if you want to be elegant. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The train of nods which the fat boy gave by way of assent, communicated a blanc-mange like motion to his fat cheeks. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- One of the most famous glaciers of the Alps is the Mer de Glace, belonging to Mont Blanc, in the valley of Chamouni, about fifty-seven hundred feet above the level of the sea. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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