Blanch
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Blanch or blanching may refer to:
Blanch is also a surname of:
- Blanch (medical)Blanch (medical)When skin is blanched, it takes on a whitish appearance as blood flow to the region is prevented. This occurs during and is the basis of the physiologic test known as diascopy....
, a temporary whitening of the skin due to transient ischemia - Blanching (cooking), cooking briefly in boiling water
- Blanching (coinage)Blanching (coinage)Blanching is the whitening of metal, by various means, such as soaking in acid or by coating with tin. This term is commonly used in coinage, in which pieces are given a lustre and brilliance before images are struck into the surface....
, a method used to whiten metal - Blanching (horticulture), growing vegetables in dark conditions to produce pale shoots or leaves
- Blanch feeBlanch feeBlanch fee, or blanch holding ,an ancient tenure in Scots land law, the duty payable being insilver or "white" money in contradistinction to gold. The phrase was afterwards applied to any holding of which the quit-rent was merely nominal, such as a penny, a peppercorn, etc....
, an ancient tenure in Scots land law - Blanch, North CarolinaBlanch, North CarolinaBlanch is an unincorporated community in Dan River Township, Caswell County, North Carolina, between North Carolina Highway 86, and North Carolina Highway 62, at an elevation of 387 feet ....
, an unincorporated community
Blanch is also a surname of:
- Andrea BlanchAndrea BlanchAndrea Blanch , born in 1946, is a prominent portrait, commercial, and fine art photographer. Blanch was one of the first women to enter the male-dominated industry of fashion photography, shattering stereotypes by sensuously portraying her fellow females....
(born 1935), portrait, commercial, and fine art photographer - Arnold BlanchArnold BlanchArnold Blanch , was born and raised in Mantorville, Minnesota. He was an American modernist painter, etcher, illustrator, lithographer, muralist, printmaker and art teacher. His modernist paintings are associated with the Social Realist movement. Blanch met his first wife the painter Lucile Blanch,...
(1896–1968), born and raised in Mantorville, Minnesota - Stuart Blanch, Baron BlanchStuart Blanch, Baron BlanchStuart Yarworth Blanch, Baron Blanch, PC was Bishop of Liverpool from 1966 to 1975, when he was invested as a Privy Counsellor and enthroned as Archbishop of York in the same year, holding the post until 1983.-Life:...
- Damien BlanchDamien BlanchDamien Blanch is an Australian-born Irish international rugby league footballer for Super League club, Catalans DragonsBlanch's usual position is winger. He has previously played for Widnes Vikings, Castleford Tigers and Wakefield Trinity Wildcats....
(born 1983), Australian-born Irish international rugby league footballer - Gertrude BlanchGertrude BlanchGertrude Blanch was an American mathematician who did pioneering work in numerical analysis and computation.Blanch was born Gittel Kaimowitz in Kolno, Russia , arrived in the United States as a child, and attended public schools in New York City. She spent fourteen years as a clerk, saving money...
(1897–1996), American mathematician - Johan BlanchJohan BlanchJohan Blanch was an Occitan troubadour who composed a canso for a joc floral at the Consistori del Gay Saber. According to the rubric of the fourteenth-century chansonnier that preserves it, he was a Catalan whose poem "won the violet" , top prize...
, an Occitan troubadour - Lesley BlanchLesley BlanchLesley Blanch, MBE, FRSL was an English writer, fashion editor and writer of history....
(1904–2007), English writer, fashion editor and writer of history - Lucile BlanchLucile BlanchLucile Blanch was an American artist and Guggenheim Fellow.-Biography:Lucile Blanch was born in 1895 in Hawley, Minnesota to the painter and lithographer Lucille Linguist. During World War I, she studied at the Minneapolis School of Art with her future husband Arnold Blanch, and other notable...
(1895–1981), American artist and Guggenheim Fellow - Michael BlanchMichael BlanchMichael Dennis Blanch TD is a British diplomat who served as Chief Executive of the Falkland Islands from January 2000 to March 2003, and again as interim Chief Executive from 12 September 2007 to 3 January 2008....
(born 1947), British diplomat - Myra BlanchMyra BlanchMyra Rose Blanch was the fourth child of Hector and Elizabeth Blanch. Myra trained as a nurse at the Nambour District Hospital and at Epworth Hospital in Melbourne. After working for a while in Victorian Hospitals she became, in 1940, Sister in Charge at the Australian Inland Mission Hospital at...
, the fourth child of Hector and Elizabeth Blanch