Planch vs Blanch - What's the difference?

planch | blanch |

As a noun planch

is (obsolete) a plank.

As a verb planch

is (obsolete|transitive) to make or cover with planks or boards.

As a proper noun blanch is

, a less common spelling of blanche.

planch

English

Noun

(es)

(obsolete) A plank.

Verb

(obsolete) To make or cover with planks or boards.

To that vineyard is a planched gate. — Shakespeare.

(Webster 1913)

blanch

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) blanchir

Verb

(es)

To grow or become white

his cheek blanched with fear

the rose blanches in the sun

To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach

to blanch linen

age has blanched his hair

(cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.

To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices

To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together

To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding

to blanch almonds

To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)

To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.

(figuratively) To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate

* Tillotson

Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things.

Etymology 2

Variant of blench

Verb

(es)

To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.

* Francis Bacon

Ifs and ands to qualify the words of treason, whereby every man might express his malice and blanch his danger.

* Reliq. Wot

I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way.

To cause to turn aside or back.

to blanch a deer

To use evasion.

* Francis Bacon

Books will speak plain, when counsellors blanch .

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