blanchedadj.
/blɑːn(t)ʃt/, /blan(t)ʃt/, U.S. /blæn(t)ʃt/ 1.
a. Whitened (now, chiefly, by loss of colour).
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitening > [adjective] > bleached
blanched1401
yblaunchydc1430
whited1529
whitstered1767
bone-bleached1840
overbleached1921
1401 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) II. 50 Blaunchid graves ful of dede bones.
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island xii. xxxi. 166 Her loathsome face, blancht skinne, and snakie hair.
1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 98 Blanched linen, smooth, and lavender'd.
b. blanched copper n. an alloy of copper and arsenic (cf. blanch v.1 1b).
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > other copper alloys
tombac1602
blanched copper1621
orichalcum1646
cock metal1766
gold bronze1785
bidri1794
tumbaga1860
Aich's metal1861
sterro-metal1865
talmi1868
Abyssinian gold1869
delta-metal1883
Tobin bronze1891
manganin1894
Eureka1914
1621 Knolles's Gen. Hist. Turkes (ed. 3) 1203 A cup of blancht copper.
2. Whitened (as almonds) by removal of the skin; peeled.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparing fruit and vegetables > [adjective] > peeled (of almonds)
blancheda1475
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 28 Take blanchid almondis and smal hom grynde.
1666 A. Brome tr. Horace Poems 391 Him that buys chiches blanch't.
3. Of plants: Whitened by exclusion of light.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > [adjective] > whitened by exclusion of light
blanched1793
1793 T. Beddoes Observ. Nature & Cure Calculus 199 Blanched plants lose their green colour, and become whitish and sickly.
1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (1849) xxvii. 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.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [adjective]
blatec1000
whiteOE
greena1275
blakec1275
bleykea1300
wana1300
palec1330
bleach1340
pale and wan (wan and pale)c1374
colourlessc1380
deadlyc1385
deadc1386
bloodlessc1450
earthlyc1460
ruddylessc1460
wan visaged?a1513
wanny1555
as pale or white as a clout1557
bleak1566
mealy1566
pale-faced1570
ghastly1574
white-faced1577
bleakish1581
pallid1590
whiggish1590
tallow-faced1592
maid-pale1597
lily1600
whey-colour1602
lew1611
roseless1611
Hippocratical1615
cadaverousa1661
Hippocratic1681
smock-faced1684
white-looked1690
livid1728
as white (or pale) as a sheet1752
squalid1753
deathly1791
etiolated1791
light-skinned1802
suety1803
shilpit1813
blanched1828
tallowy1830
suet-faced1834
pasty1836
tallowish1838
whey-faced1847
pasty-faced1848
aghast1850
waxen1853
complexionless1863
light-skin1877
lily-cheeked1877
lardy1879
wan-faced1881
exsanguinous1889
wheatish1950
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 170 They looked on each other with fallen countenances and blanched lips.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective]
feeblec1400
colourlessc1425
flagging1540
pithless1555
blanched1570
toothless1592
unpointed1604
unsinewed1604
jejune1615
low-pitched1622
unsinewy?1623
macilent1624
flaccid1647
insinewy1653
unsubstanceda1658
incogent1667
pointless1673
languida1677
enervatea1704
unaccentuated1716
unnervate1725
lank1729
unforcible1754
nerveless1763
weak1771
flabby1793
slip-slop1814
tinkling1822
exsanguinea1834
twittery1840
slipshod1842
under-coloured1870
shaftless1881
thin1890
unaccented1893
wimpish1925
wimp1979
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 134/1 Now marke (good Reader) what blanched stuffe here folowed.
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