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blanco

v. whiten with Blanco

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Blanco, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 1505
Housing Units (2000): 633
Land area (2000): 1.672846 sq. miles (4.332651 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.049131 sq. miles (0.127249 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.721977 sq. miles (4.459900 sq. km)
FIPS code: 08536
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 30.099535 N, 98.422213 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 78606
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Blanco, TX
Blanco
Blanco -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 8418
Housing Units (2000): 4031
Land area (2000): 711.242980 sq. miles (1842.110782 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.164561 sq. miles (5.606187 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 713.407541 sq. miles (1847.716969 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 30.241560 N, 98.381913 W
Headwords:
Blanco
Blanco, TX
Blanco County
Blanco County, TX
Wikipedia
Blanco (compound)

Blanco was a compound used primarily by soldiers throughout the Commonwealth from 1880 onwards to clean and colour their equipment. It was first used by the British Army to whiten Slade Wallace buckskin leather equipment, and later adapted to coloured versions for use on the cotton Web Infantry Equipment, Pattern 1908 webbing. Blanco became widely used throughout both world wars.

Blanco

Blanco (white or blank in Spanish) or Los Blancos may refer to:

Blanco (surname)

Blanco is a surname of Spanish origin, meaning "white". Notable people with the surname include:

Usage examples of "blanco".

Blanco and spread his hand, indicating that Blanco should answer the question.

He had been one of the men General Blanco had gathered around him in the big house.

Across the little space behind the mess tent, Blanco and Colonna were sitting on a bench, drinking from heavy earthenware cups.

Across the little sandy square Blanco looked up from the bench with interest.

Dwyrin had not left the inner camp, but he had heard Blanco and the tribune discussing the extension of the great ditch that bounded the encampment and the raising of many new tents.

At the far end, Blanco raised a simple short bow, no more than a curved stave bound with gut and sinew.

He grinned, and flinched back as Blanco drew and fired four in quick succession.

The tribune and Blanco, by turns, drilled them on the myriad details of the Legion.

They had been about these exercises, as Blanco was fond of terming them, since the sun had risen over the grimy, fly-infested plain.

For a change, Blanco did not have an expression of furious anger fixed on his face.

You can tell them apart because his brother, Blanco, is a little taller and uglier.

Trang Ho followed Blanco Ferndndez and Da Rimini toward the nearest opening in the wall, Manco found himself a resting place and relaxed, cradling his rifle in his lap.

While Fewick wept over the unprecedented inscriptions, Blanco tried the handle of the wooden door which barred the way into the modest structure.

The contents of the structure buried Blanco before he could get clear, flooding outward and carrying him partway across the floor.

The avalanche of gold that Blanco Ferndndez had brought forth from a nearby vault lay undisturbed where it had spilled.