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Blank
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blank blänk
English
Etymology
As a en nl - and en de - surname, from the adjective de blank shining, pale, white.
As an English and Jewish surname, spelling variant of en Blanc, en Blanck.
Proper noun
en.
en 1987 Latin American Research Review 238 The same preoccupation with developing a conceptual framework is evident in David Blank's Venezuela: Politics in a Petroleum Republic, a modified version of Blank's early theses.
en chiefly dated Used as an anonymous placeholder for a person's name.
en 1922 The Saturday Review 133 359 Miss Compton, in 'Other People's Worries,' asks rhetorically whether a young rip was not in the Blank divorce case.
Related terms
Blankshire
en placeholder terms