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blancmange
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Blancmange is a jelly or pudding dessert made of milk, sugar, gelatin and flavouring. Blancmange may also be: Blancmange curve , a fractal which is considered to resemble a blancmange. Blancmange (band) , a 1980s British synthpop group. Blancmange Hill ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blancmange \Blanc*mange"\, n. [F. blancmanger, lit. white food; blanc white + manger to eat.] (Cookery) A preparation for desserts, etc., made from isinglass, sea moss, cornstarch, or other gelatinous or starchy substance, with mild, usually sweetened and ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French blancmengier (13c.), literally "white eating," originally a dish of fowl minced with cream, rice, almonds, sugar, eggs, etc.; from blanc "white" (also used in Old French of white foods, such as eggs, cream, also white meats such ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A simple dessert made by cooking sweetened milk with cornstarch and vanilla
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.