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blancmange

[ bluh-mahnj, -mahnzh ]

noun

  1. a sweet pudding prepared with almond milk and gelatin and flavored with rum or kirsch.
  2. a sweet, white pudding made with milk and cornstarch and flavored with vanilla.


blancmange

/ əˈɒ /

noun

  1. a jelly-like dessert, stiffened usually with cornflour and set in a mould
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of blancmange1

1350–1400; apocopated variant of Middle English blancmanger < Middle French: literally, white eating. See blank, manger
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of blancmange1

C14: from Old French blanc manger , literally: white food
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However, he also recalls the "nightmare" that was liver and bacon with cabbage, followed by pink blancmange.

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With 19 minutes left, he went into turbo charge and Gvardiol, one of the costliest and most composed defenders in English football, suddenly had the steadiness of a blancmange.

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There are rumblings on the right that he needs to demonstrate more "proper Conservative" values after what has been described as one former minister as "soggy blancmange" so far.

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For dessert, he served "gold, frankincense and myrrh blancmanges" topped with honeycomb, pistachio and liquorice crumb, which judge John Torode described as "delightful".

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The Guardian likened it to a home for very large Teletubbies; Prince Charles, a longtime critic of modernism, described it as a “monstrous blancmange.”

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