blancmanger

See also: blanc-manger

English

Etymology

From French. See blancmange.

Noun

blancmanger (plural blancmangers)

  1. (obsolete) A sort of fricassee with white sauce, variously made of capon, fish, etc.
    • 1387, Chaucer, “v. 387”, in General Prologue‎:
      For blankmanger that made he with the beste. A Schipman was ther, wonyng fer by weste

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for blancmanger in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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