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blancmange.

A simple dessert made by cooking sweetened milk with cornstarch and vanilla.

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Meaning & usage

noun/bləˈmɒndʒ/UK/bləˈmɒnʒ/UK/bləˈmɑndʒ/US/bləˈmɑnʒ/US
  1. A simple dessert made by cooking sweetened milk with cornstarch and vanilla.

    countable · uncountable
  2. Something soft, weak, and wobbly.

    countable · figuratively · uncountable
  3. A dish, eaten in the Middle Ages, generally consisting of chicken (or sometimes capon or fish), milk or almond milk, rice, and sugar.

    countable · historical · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From Middle English blancmanger, blomanger, from Old French blanc mangier (“white food”). The pudding evolved from the chicken dish. Compare French blanc-manger.

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