blanquet

English

Noun

blanquet (countable and uncountable, plural blanquets)

1. Obsolete spelling of blanquette.

Catalan

Etymology

From blanc +‎ -et.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [bləŋˈke̞t]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [bləŋˈkət]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [bləŋˈkɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [blaŋˈket]

Noun

blanquet m (plural blanquets)

1. white lead, ceruse
2. a white pigment made from white lead, zinc oxide, bismuth oxynitrate, etc. and generally applied to the face
3. a type of pork sausage made with pinenuts and flavoured with anise

Further reading

• “blanquet”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “blanquet”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)