blanchet

From Middle French blanchet, from Old French blancet, blanket (“woolen cloth" also "white horse”), a blend of calqued Old English hwītel (“white woolen cloth”) and Old English blanca (“white horse”). Equivalent to blanc +‎ -et.

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blanchet (feminine blanchette, masculine plural blanchets, feminine plural blanchettes)

1. whitish

blanchet m (plural blanchets)

1. a grey, woolen cloth

• “blanchet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012