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• blanc
  blanc

  noun

  a silver coin of France of the 14th–18th centuries, debased in later years.
• Blanc
  Blanc

  noun

  Jean Joseph Charles Louis 1811–82, French socialist and historian.

blanc

¹ American  

[blangk, blahn] / blæŋk, blɑ̃ /

noun

• blancs
  plural

1. a silver coin of France of the 14th–18th centuries, debased in later years.

2. an Anglo-Gallic copy of this coin, issued by Henry VI.

3. French Cooking. a liquid for poaching meat, fish, or vegetables, often containing wine, herbs, and vegetables; court-bouillon.

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Blanc ² American  

[blahn, blangk] / blɑ̃, blæŋk /

noun

1. Jean Joseph Charles Louis 1811–82, French socialist and historian.

2. Mel(vin Jerome), 1908–1989, U.S. voice actor for cartoon characters, as Woody Woodpecker and Daffy Duck, in films.

3. Mont. Mont Blanc.

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Blanc ¹ British  

/ blɑ̃ /

noun

1. See Mont Blanc

2. a headland in N Tunisia: the northernmost point of Africa

3. a peninsula in Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast

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Blanc ² British  

/ blɑ̃ /

noun

1. ( Jean Joseph Charles ) Louis (lwi). 1811–82, French socialist and historian: author of L'Organisation du travail (1840), in which he advocated the establishment of cooperative workshops subsidized by the state

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• blancs
  plural

Etymology

Origin of blanc

< French, Old French: white; see blank

Example Sentences

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The pan-seared salmon was another highlight, served over zucchini with coconut beurre blanc and curry-chili crisp.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026

The success of a multicultural French football team - celebrated under the slogan Black, blanc, beur - at a home World Cup in 1998, also shifted conceptions of how the country could be represented.

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025

Monsoon was also the first Vietnamese restaurant in Seattle to advocate wine pairing such as caramelized catfish claypot with chenin blanc and lúc lắc shaking beef with a light pinot noir.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2024

“American Fiction” is a lot like Monk’s drink of choice, Chenin blanc: dry, bracing, elegant and a bit unexpected.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2023

The blanc mange was lumpy, and the strawberries not as ripe as they looked, having been skilfully ‘deaconed’.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

When the French socialist Louis Blanc referred to le capitalisme in 1850, he described “the appropriation of capital by some to the exclusion of others.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Blanc said construction that borders those flood zones also needs a different approach.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

In a wide-ranging interview, Blanc urged the government to avoid policy "kite flying" ahead of Chancellor John Healey's first Budget on 28 October.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Sometimes it resembles the love child of Sauvignon Blanc and Viognier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Again, the argument would seem to be that I cannot prove that Mont Blanc is 4000 metres high, but believing it, on the authority of a map, has ‘proved to pay’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

It’s spectacular in beurre blancs atop crispy-skinned white fish or in creamy pan sauces for seared chicken.

From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2025

He was grooming his millions of followers, the petit blancs business owners and hustlers, into spreading the virus.

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2022

Fifteen years before the boss bought the winery, the paper dropped into a review of California sauvignon blancs a tidbit about Moraga’s 1993 “meritage.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2022

While a blanc de blancs champagne is most likely made entirely of chardonnay, this California version is one-quarter pinot blanc.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2022

Besides the classes of which I have spoken there was another class in St. Domingo called petit blancs, which means small whites.

From The Freedmen's Book by Lydia Maria Francis Child