| 单词 | blancmange |
| 释义 | blancmange (once / 49871 pages) n Blancmange is a dessert made of milk, sugar, and sometimes almonds. It’s usually served cold in a mold. It’s kind of like vanilla pudding. For some reason, it’s often pink. This French term means "white food," and that's a very good description of blancmange. This dessert is like a pudding made from milk and cornstarch, and although it's sometimes pink, it's usually white and somewhat bland. However, there are various ways of livening it up. Sometimes spices or even shredded chicken is added. Occasionally, this word has been a synonym for nonsense, as in, "That's a load of blancmange!" WORD FAMILYblancmange: blancmanges USAGE EXAMPLESIt was like a blancmange, he says; “you could put your finger in it and it would somehow reseal.” New York Times(Nov 17, 2016) The Guardian journalist, Peter Walker, writing at the time, called it a "four-stage blancmange of a debate process". BBC(Sep 30, 2016) Images and ideas appear here as one big put-on, and everything gets absorbed into the DISosphere, a feeble blancmange of logos and light boxes. The Guardian(Jun 13, 2016) n sweet almond-flavored milk pudding thickened with gelatin or cornstarch; usually molded Hyper afters, dessert, sweet a dish served as the last course of a meal |
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