Etymology

blanc

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Today it means: A white person; a person of European or Caucasian descent. Full definition →

French blanc
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromblanc“white”
  2. English todayblanc

Borrowed from French blanc (“white”). Doublet of blank.

Words from the same roots

Frenchblanc all →

blancard

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.