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Blancmange N Sweet Opaque Gelatinous Dessert Made Cornstarch

Word blancmange
Definition n. A sweet, opaque gelatinous dessert made with cornstarch and milk.
Sentence He would scarcely have been able to believe that those incandescent eyes had it in them to blink so sheepishly, or that that iron jaw could have sagged so like a poorly set blancmange.
Source Uncle Fred in the Springtime, The Best of Wodehouse, p. 676

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