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blanched

Adjective
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Made pale or whitened, often from fear, illness, or loss of color.

Detailed Definition
Blanched is a somewhat literary word for something turned pale or white. Here it describes the beloved’s face as pale against the speaker’s body, adding to the poem’s tense, dreamlike mood.
Example
Example in poetry:
“I see your blanched face at my breast” presents fear as a loss of colour; a blanched moon hangs over a battlefield, pale through smoke; her blanched hands tighten around the telegram; the winter garden lies blanched by frost, its roses drained of red
Additional Notes
“blanched” is a literary word for paleness, and the quoted line uses it to describe a face.; Found in the poem, A Love Song by D. H. Lawrence
Also Known As
pale whitened faded washed
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