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名詞

blanc (countable and uncountable, plural blancs)

1. (offensive, ethnic slur) A white person; a person of European or Caucasian descent.
2. A white sauce of fat, broth, and vegetables, used especially for braised meat.
3. A white cosmetic.
   • 2013, M. C. Beaton, Rake's Progress:

     Had Miss Fipps not told her what they were, she would have taken them for ladies of fashion. In an age when women wore less than they had ever done but wore just as much blanc and rouge, there was little difference between the ladies in the side boxes and the ladies in the centre.

   • 2015, Richard Corson, James Glavan, Beverly Gore Norcross, Stage Makeup, page 322:

     A guest at a party in 1764 was described as wearing on her face "rather too much yellow mixed with the red; she . . . would look very agreeable if she added blanc to the rouge instead of gamboge."

   • 2020, Amelia Rauser, The Age of Undress, page 127:

     A white mask of cosmetic face paint, or blanc, had long been the norm for formally dressed ladies in the eighteenth century, but by the 1790s the deliberate artifice of the white mask was supplanted by a desire for a "natural" whiteness without additional coloring. "Rouge is no longer used; pallor is more interesting," wrote one commentator in 1804; "The ladies only use the blanc, and leave the rouge to the men."

参考

語源

From Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright", "shining", "blinding", "white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German blanch, planch (“bright", "white”), hence German blank (“blank", "white”), Old Norse blankr (“white”), hence Danish blank (“shiny”), Swedish blank (“shiny”), Dutch blank (“white", "shining”).

発音

• IPA: /blɑnk/, [blɑŋk]

形容詞

blanc

1. white
2. greyish-white, pale, pallid

語形変化

関連する語

• blonca, blanca
• blencan

派生した語

• Middle English: blanke, blonke
  • Scots: blonk