blanquette

Meaning

Noun

• A white meat stew in which neither the meat nor the sauce is browned.

Origin

• Borrowed from French blanquette, from Provençal blanqueto, a diminutive of blanc, derived, through Late Latin and Vulgar Latin *blancus, from Frankish *blank ("gleaming, white, blinding"), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz ("white, bright, blinding"), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- ("to shine").
  Compare blanket.