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blanched, a.|blɑːnʃt, -æ-|
[f. blanch v.1 + -ed.]
1. Whitened (now, chiefly, by loss of colour).
1401Pol. Poems (1859) II. 50 Blaunchid graves ful of dede bones. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. xii. xxxi, Her loathsome face, blancht skinne and snakie hair. 1820Keats St. Agnes xxx, Blanched linen, smooth and lavendered.
b. blanched copper: an alloy of copper and arsenic (cf. blanch v. 1 b.).
1603Knolles Hist. Turkes (1621) 1203 A cup of blancht copper.
2. Whitened (as almonds) by removal of the skin; peeled.
c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 28 Take blanchid almondis and small hom grynde. a1666A. Brome Horace's De Arte P. (1671) 391 Him that buys chiches blanch't.
3. Of plants: Whitened by exclusion of light.
1793T. Beddoes Calculus 199 Blanched plants lose their green colour, and become whitish and sickly. 1834M. Somerville Connex. Phys. Sc. xxvii. (1849) 301 They [Plants] are found in caverns almost void of light, though generally blanched and feeble.
4. Pale with fear or other emotion, hunger, etc.
1828Scott F.M. Perth I. 50 They looked on each other with fallen countenances and blanched lips.
†5. ? Colourless, feeble; or ? perverted. Obs.
1553–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 86/2 Now marke (good reader) what blanched stuffe here followeth. |