LekhoriLekhoriTo grow or become white.
His cheek blanched with fear.
To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
to blanch linen
To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
Ifs and ands to qualify words of treason; whereby every man might express his malice, and blanch his danger.
A female given name from French, a less common spelling of Blanche.
That daughter there of Spain, the Lady Blanch, / Is near to England: look upon the years / Of Lewis the Dauphin and the lovely maid. / If lusty love should go in quest of beauty, / Where should he find it fairer than in Blanch?
From Middle English blaunchen, from Old French blanchir, from Old French blanc (“white”), from Early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish *blank, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blind...
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