Blanch
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Blanch or blanching may refer to:
- Blanch (medical), a temporary whitening of the skin due to transient ischemia
- Blanching (cooking), cooking briefly in boiling water
- Blanching (coinage), a method used to whiten metal
- Blanching (horticulture), growing vegetables in dark conditions to produce pale shoots or leaves
- Blanch fee, an ancient tenure in Scots land law
- Blanch, North Carolina, an unincorporated community
Blanch is also a surname of:
- Andrea Blanch (born 1935), portrait, commercial, and fine art photographer
- Arnold Blanch (1896–1968), born and raised in Mantorville, Minnesota
- Stuart Blanch, Baron Blanch
- Damien Blanch (born 1983), Australian-born Irish international rugby league footballer
- Gertrude Blanch (1897–1996), American mathematician
- Joan Blanch (1937–2014), Spanish politician
- Johan Blanch, Occitan troubadour
- John Blanch (c.1649–1725), British MP
- Lesley Blanch (1904–2007), English writer, fashion editor and writer of history
- Lucile Blanch (1895–1981), American artist and Guggenheim Fellow
- Michael Blanch (born 1947), British diplomat
- Myra Blanch, the fourth child of Hector and Elizabeth Blanch
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