blancard

From French blanc (“white”).

blancard (countable and uncountable, plural blancards)

1. A kind of linen cloth formerly made in Normandy, the thread of which was partly blanched before it was woven.

• “blancard”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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