Bianca

[ byahng-kah, bee-ahng-kuh ]

/ ˈbyɑŋ kɑ, biˈɑŋ kə /

a female given name: from an Italian word meaning “white.”

QUIZZES

Test your memory on these verbal firecrackers from the week of June 29 to July 5!

Question 1 of 7

anchorite

Courtney stands in stark contrast to Bianca Del Rio, whose crown it is to lose.
All the Ways Contestants on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Have to Be Crazy Perfect|Kelly Williams Brown|April 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In short, Bianca Del Rio is exemplifying what only one show has dared to ask of its contestants.
All the Ways Contestants on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Have to Be Crazy Perfect|Kelly Williams Brown|April 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As one story goes, Bianca Jagger, impressed, once made a plaster cast of Mara's posterior.
The Stacks: Harold Conrad Was Many Things, But He Was Never, Ever Dull|Mark Jacobson|March 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As I was taking off my boots, Bianca came breathlessly into my room.
My Attack of Model Jealousy|Anonymous|February 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST

By listening in on their conversation, we get to know the narrator, Asa Baker-Rouse, and the filmmaker, Bianca Giaever.
Vimeo Presents: The Top 10 Videos of 2013||December 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Enough of both, one would think, must have fallen to Bianca's lot.
A Decade of Italian Women, v. II (of 2)|T. Adolphus Trollope
Bianca Campodonico married Vittoria's uncle, and no one thought it a bad match until it turned out badly.
Corleone|F. Marion Crawford
Again Bianca was about to reply, but Sonya glanced up at a little clock on the mantel.
The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory|Margaret Vandercook
Both Sonya and Bianca were speaking English so that the little interloper would not be able to understand what they were saying.
The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory|Margaret Vandercook
The Cardinal Legate was expecting him at one o'clock, and—would it be best to drive Bianca from his mind till afterwards?
A Siren|Thomas Adolphus Trollope