blancmange

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  1. noun A flavored and sweetened milk pudding thickened with cornstarch.

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  • I had a vision of myself standing there like a blancmange, and feeling even more embarrassed than if I'd sung. —  Tanith_Lee_-_The_Silver_Metal_Lover3
  • Williams jiggled like a blancmange inside his suit. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 03 - March 1994
  • When eventually I returned to Red and to my task I was chagrined to find that the change in my perspective did not have much effect on the frustration I felt in trying to question the moor dwellers, or on my physical state: It still felt like trying to carve blancmange, and I still ached and coughed and sneezed. —  The Moor - Laurie R King - Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes 04
  • Shell toyed with her spoon, perhaps wistfully wishing, as I, that it could be used for rice pudding, blancmange, porridge or soup, and so sustain life. —  process 10
  • Once penned by an acid-filled moat in his sandy Coventry, Bear became a prime tourist attraction and continues right up to the current day to amuse children and adults alike with his various Jell-O, blancmange, and Rush Limbaugh impressions. —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 02 - February 1999
 

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  1. Middle English blankmanger, a dish made with almond milk, from Old French blanc mangier : blanc, white (of Germanic origin; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots) + mangier, to eat, food (from Latin manducāre; see manger).
 

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