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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈblænt͡ʃɚ/, /ˈblɑːnt͡ʃɚ/

名詞

blancher (複数形 blanchers)

1. One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; especially, one who anneals and cleanses money, or a chemical preparation for this purpose.
2. A machine for blanching or whitening.
3. (obsolete) One who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside.
   • a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, →OCLC:

     And Gynecia, a blancher, which kept the dearest deer from her.

   • 18 January 1549, Hugh Latimer, Sermon of the Plough

     And so even now hath he divers blanchers belonging to the market, to let and stop the light of the gospel.

関連する語

• blencher