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blancmange, -manger|bləˈmɑːnʒ, -ˈmɒnʒ, -ˈmɑ̃ːʒ|
Forms: 4 blancmanger(e, blank(e)manger(e, bla-, blam-, blan-, blaumanger, blamyngere, 5 blanc maungere, blaunche-, blonc-, blawemanger, blanger mangere, 6 blowmanger, 7 bla-, blanch-, blanck-, blankemanger, 8 blomange, 9 blamange, 8– blancmange, -manger.
[In 14th c. blancmanger, a. OF. blanc-manger (earlier -mangier), lit. ‘white food or dish,’ f. blanc white + manger to eat, eating, food. Blanc fell already in 14th c. to blam-, bla-, blau-, later blawe-, blow-, blo-, bla-, and manger was in 18th c. abridged to mange. The present spelling is a half attempt at restoring the French, but the pronunciation is that of the 18th c. blomange, blamange, often garnished with a French nasal, by those who know French.]
†a. Formerly: A dish composed usually of fowl, but also of other meat, minced with cream, rice, almonds, sugar, eggs, etc. Obs.
b. Now: A sweetmeat made of dissolved isinglass or gelatine boiled with milk, etc., and forming an opaque white jelly; also a preparation of cornflour and milk, with flavouring substances.
1377Lang. P. Pl. B. xiii. 91 Þat neither bacoun ne braune · blan[c]mangere ne mortrewes Is noither fisshe [ne] flesshe · but fode for a penaunte. c1386Chaucer Prol. 387 ffor blankmanger [v.r. blankemangere] that made he with the beste. c1420Liber Cocorum 19 Blanc maungere of fysshe. c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture in Babees Bk. (1868) 165 Two potages, blanger mangere, & Also Iely. 1483Cath. Angl. 34 Blawemanger, peponus. 1530Ortus Voc., Blowmanger. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 680 Their blamangers, jellies, chawdres. 1626Bacon Sylva §48 Blanch-Manger or Jelly. 1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 195 To make Blomange of Isinglass. 1772–84Cook Voy. (1790) I. 54 Its flavour was something like blanc mange. 1801Wolcott (P. Pindar) Ep. Ct. Rumford Wks. 1812 V. 137 Soap⁓suds to Syllabubs and Trifles change, And Bullocks' Lights and Livers to Blamange. 1812L. Hunt in Examiner 21 Dec. 801/1 Trembling at it's fate, like blanc-manger. 1862Mrs. Beeton Cookery Bk. 44/1 Loosen the edges of the blanc⁓mange from the mould.
c. fig. (cf. ‘flummery.’)
1790Burke Corr. (1844) III. 157 Whenever that politic prince made any of his flattering speeches..when he served them with this, and the rest of his blanc-mange, of which he was sufficiently liberal. |