blancmanger

See also: blanc-manger

English

Noun

blancmanger (plural blancmangers)

(historical) A sort of fricassee with white sauce, variously made of capon, fish, etc.; blancmange.

Middle English

Alternative forms

blomanger, blankmanger

Etymology

From Old French blanc manger.

Noun

blancmanger (plural blancmangers)

A sort of fricassee with white sauce, variously made of capon, fish, etc.; blancmange.
- 1387, Chaucer, “v. 387”, in General Prologue‎:
  For blankmanger that made he with the beste. A Schipman was ther, wonyng fer by weste
  (please add an English translation of this quote)

Descendants

English: blancmange

References

“blank-manǧer, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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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