Hance vs Rance - What's the difference?
hance | rance |
(obsolete) To raise, to elevate.
A curve or arc, especially in architecture or in the design of a ship.
* 1974 , Guy Davenport, Tatlin! :
A type of coloured marble from Belgium. Rance is red and often has white or blue graining.
(Scotland) A prop or shore.
A round or spreader between the legs of a chair.
(Webster 1913)
As a proper noun hance
is .As a noun rance is
a type of coloured marble from belgium rance is red and often has white or blue graining.hance
English
Etymology 1
See “enhance”.Verb
(hanc)- (Lydgate)
Etymology 2
Anglo-Norman, from Old French haulce .Noun
(en noun)- He wears a minimal white cotton brief, and is pleased by the hance of its pouch, a catenary dip as he faces the mirror, the profile navicular and ostent.