Blanche

See also: blanche

Translingual

Proper noun

Blanche

1. A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Emanuel Blanche (1824-1908).

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English

Alternative forms

• Blanch

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French blanc "white". The surname originated as a nickname, or as a matronymic.

Proper noun

Blanche

1. A female given name from French.
2. of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French origin.

Quotations

• 1605 William Camden, Remains Concerning Britain, John Russell Smith (1870), page 55:

  But the Ambassadours enquiring each of their names, took offence at Urraca, and made choice of the Lady Blanche, saying, That her name would be better received in France than the other, as signifying fair and beautiful, according to the verse made in her honour,

  "Candida, candescens candore, & cordis & oris."

• 1878 Margaret Laurence Jones, Every Day: A Story, Remington and co., pages 61-62:

  Dorothy averred that Miss Potter was the second person with so little taste, as to appropriate the royal name of Blanche to a waiting-maid. An acquaintance, having a housemaid, whose full name was Catherine Blanche, always addressed her by her surname, Blanche, considering Catherine too romantic a name for a servant.

• 1994 Barbara Neely, Blanche Among the Talented Tenth, St Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 27:

  "To the irony of the person who named you - although you must catch hell, Blanche White." Blanche couldn't remember the last time anyone had spoken to her directly about the contrast between her color and her name.

Related terms

• Bianca

Translations

female given name

• Catalan: Blanca (ca)
• Cherokee: Ꮖ̃ᎴᏅᏥ (Balenvji)
• Czech: Blanka (cs), Bianka, Běla (cs)
• Dutch: Blanca (nl)
• French: Blanche (fr)
• Galician: Branca (gl)
• German: Bianka, Blanka
• Hungarian: Bianka (hu)
• Inuktitut: ᑉᓛᓐᑦᔅ (plaants)
• Italian: Bianca (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: Blanca
• Polish: Blanka (pl)
• Portuguese: Branca
• Romanian: Blanca, Bianca
• Russian: Бланка (Blanka)
• Slovak: Blanka, Bianka
• Slovene: Blanka
• Spanish: Blanca (es)
• Swahili: Blanchi
• Swedish: Blanka

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blɑ̃ʃ/

Proper noun

Blanche ?

1. a female given name

Noun

Blanche f (plural Blanches)

1. (deprecated template usage) feminine equivalent of Blanc

Further reading

• “Blanche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.