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blanquette.

A white meat stew in which neither the meat nor the sauce is browned.

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Meaning & usage

noun/blɒ̃ˈkɛt/UK/blɑ̃ˈkɛt/US/blɑŋˈkɛt/US
  1. A white meat stew in which neither the meat nor the sauce is browned.

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Where this word comes from

Borrowed from French blanquette, from Provençal blanqueto, a diminutive of blanc (“white”), derived, through early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”). Compare blanket.

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