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blancmange
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. sweet almond-flavored milk pudding thickened with gelatin or cornstarch; usually molded
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A car is heterogeneous: unlike a blancmange , almost any portion of the car is different from other portions. ▪ After a period of some 45min, the vat appeared full of blancmange . ▪ It scared and disgusted her the way every male ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A simple dessert made by cooking sweetened milk with cornstarch and vanilla
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Blancmange ( or , from French blanc-manger ) is a sweet dessert commonly made with milk or cream and sugar thickened with gelatin , cornstarch or Irish moss (a source of carrageenan ), and often flavoured with almonds . It is usually set in a mould and ...
Usage examples of blancmange.
Burton left to see them out, and Ernie came up to Veronique, his young face as round and white as a bowl of blancmange.
It was an act of defiance, and at the evening meal that night, as her parents consumed a trifle composed of left-over blancmange and jelly-roll, she was powerfully conscious of their eyes upon her.
It was very good, too, and was followed by a vast blancmange with jam on top.
Only once when the ball whizzed past my nose and almost carried away a poised spoonful of blancmange did their father remonstrate.
The colours spoke to her of custard, of blancmange a leaden meat tea served on pastel plates, the desiccation of a proletarian wake for some tyrant grandad, or some pub parrot of a granny, mad these thirty years.
Midway down they were held up by Mary Jane, who replenished them with raspberry or orange jelly or with blancmange and jam.
When the second course made its appearance, with its plethora of vegetables, jellies, fondues, blancmanges, and Chantilly baskets, she refused to allow her aunt to serve her from the larded guinea-fowls which graced the head of the table, or Sir Timothy to tempt her to a morsel of the ducklings set before him, and ended her repast with some asparagus.
A pink milk pudding or blancmange is simple in the sense that, if we slice it in two, the two portions will have the same internal constitution: a blancmange is homogeneous.