blanquette

• blanquet (obsolete)

Borrowed from French blanquette, from Provençal blanqueto, a diminutive of blanc (“white”), derived, through Late Latin and Vulgar Latin *blancus, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).
Compare blanket.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /blɒ̃ˈkɛt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /blɑ̃ˈkɛt/, /blɑŋˈkɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

blanquette (countable and uncountable, plural blanquettes)

1. A white meat stew in which neither the meat nor the sauce is browned.

   Hypernyms: ragout, stew

   Hyponym: blanquette de veau

Borrowed from Provençal blanqueto, a diminutive of blanc (“white”), derived, through Late Latin and Vulgar Latin *blancus, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”). Equivalent to blanc (“white”) +‎ -ette (feminine diminutive suffix).

• IPA^(key): /blɑ̃.kɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

blanquette f (plural blanquettes)

1. (uncountable) A variety of white grapes.

   Synonym: chasselas doré

   Hypernym: raisin

   1. (countable or uncountable) The white sparkling wine produced from this grapevine.

      Hypernyms: vin, vin blanc, vin mousseux

      Hyponym: blanquette de Limoux

2. (countable) A type of summer white pear.

   Hypernym: poire

3. (countable or uncountable) The first clear distillation of a brandy.

   Hypernym: eau-de-vie

4. (countable or uncountable) blanquette (white meat stew which is not browned)

   Hypernym: ragoût

   Hyponyms: blanquette d'agneau, blanquette de veau

5. (uncountable, slang, popular) silverware

   Synonym: argenterie

• “blanquette” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).