Translingual

Proper noun

Blanche

1. A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Emanuel Blanche (1824-1908).

English

Alternative forms

• Blanch

Proper noun

Blanche

1. A female given name.
2. A surname​ of French origin.

Quotations

• 1605 William Camden, Remains Concerning Britain, John Russell Smith (1870), page 55:

  But the Ambassadours enquiring each of their names, took offence at Urraca, and made choice of the Lady Blanche, saying, That her name would be better received in France than the other, as signifying fair and beautiful, according to the verse made in her honour,

  "Candida, candescens candore, & cordis & oris."

• 1878 Margaret Laurence Jones, Every Day: A Story, Remington and co., pages 61-62:

  Dorothy averred that Miss Potter was the second person with so little taste, as to appropriate the royal name of Blanche to a waiting-maid. An acquaintance, having a housemaid, whose full name was Catherine Blanche, always addressed her by her surname, Blanche, considering Catherine too romantic a name for a servant.

• 1994 Barbara Neely, Blanche Among the Talented Tenth, St Martin's Press, ISBN 0312112483, page 27:

  "To the irony of the person who named you - although you must catch ****, Blanche White." Blanche couldn't remember the last time anyone had spoken to her directly about the contrast between her color and her name.

Related terms

• Bianca

Translations

French

Proper noun

Blanche

1. A female given name

Noun

Blanche f ‎(plural Blanches)

1. feminine equivalent of Blanc

French

Adjective

blanche

1. feminine singular of blanc

   Cette page est blanche.‎

   This page is white.

Middle French

Adjective

blanche

1. feminine singular of blanc

Old French

Alternative forms

• blance (less common)

Adjective

blanche f

1. nominative feminine singular of blanc
2. oblique feminine singular of blanc