Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A grade of cochineal-bugs, often called silver-whites, from their peculiar lustrous appearance, in distinction from the black bugs or zacatillas. They are picked into bags and immediately dried in a stove, while the others are first thrown into hot water.
Examples
“Alubia blanco is the kind of frijol that I most frequently cook.”
“The primary difference in cemento blanco is the careful choice of raw materials that don't contain the trace elements (mostly iron, manganese and chromium) that give "normal" Portland Cement its gray color.”
“One of the main uses of cemento blanco is for grouting tile.”
“The primary use of cemento blanco is in structures where the light color of the finished concrete is an important element of the architectural design.”
“Pescado blanco is a flattish fish about the size of a small trout.”
“If you're gonna name your site "recall blanco", then try to make a non-fraudulent argument outlining why she should be recalled.”
“Garliq offers pizza with two types of sauces: blanco, which is a light garlic-tinged ricotta, and traditional tomato sauce.”
“So a player who is reported to be definitely on the way to a new club, even if it has not been formally confirmed, will often be described as blanco y en botella.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“Tequila is generally placed in five categories: blanco, which is white or silver and typically unaged; a gold that is not aged but has added color and flavor such as caramel; reposado, a”
“I move on to the pizza rustica, a slightly free-form round of dough, lightly charred on the bottom, adorned with a duo of "salmon" - one side salmón rosado the other salmón blanco, which is not, as I've mentioned before, a salmon at all.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blanco’.
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No Hablo Español
Despite seven years of classes and being half-Puerto Rican.
uno, dos, tres, quatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez, once, doce and 198 more...
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trademark
all of these are from 7 English
dictionaries and Macquarie dictionary
I havent listed capitalized ones yet
but Viagra would be one and common
words like sterling a sub-machi...agene, adware, airbus, alnico, amberina, amarone, apiezon, aspirin, atebrin, atebrine, autocue, autoharp and 774 more...
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Bits and pieces
neverwasbian, proddywoddy, militant relativism, cverglan, điđe-miđe, goomba, churlsome, skancewards, luftmensch, šmizla, sbc, villayet and 567 more...
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It was good enough for Billy Burroughs
smack, dope, junk, mud, h, skag, black tar, horse, brown sugar, chiva, boy, black and 237 more...
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Peter Carey's Illywhacker
Culling my "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list. Thanks for the idea, yarb.
tinea, mingy, blanco, bitzer, mallee fowl, yabbies, coir, bluey, stoush, barney, currawong, providore and 43 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for blanco.
fbharjo *blanco look!?!* Apr 19, 2009
reesetee *hands sionnach reading glasses* Apr 18, 2009
bilby The first few times I read this I was trying to work out what a wife iron might be. Apr 18, 2009
dontcry So his wife was a bitch? Apr 18, 2009
sionnach So his wife was whitefonting his webdings? Apr 18, 2009
chained_bear "When no one could see the point in drilling the militia, it was Henry Underhill who had his wife iron his uniform and blanco his webbing, who tucked a baton under his arm, and barked at the young men until the street lights came on..."
—Peter Carey, Illywhacker, 438 Apr 17, 2009