chèque en blanc
French
noun
Definitions
- blank check US, blank cheque Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, UK a signed cheque with the value left blank
Etymology
Compound from French chèque (cheque) + French en (in, -an)+ French blanc (white).
Origin
French
blanc
Gloss
white
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
白
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- blanc English
- blancard English
- en cabochon English
- en ventre sa mere English
- en-papillote English
- bianco Italian
- Val-d'Or French
- avoir les jambes en coton French
- blanc French
- blanchaille French
- blanchement French
- blanchir French
- blanquette French
- caquenlit French
- chienlit French
- chèque French
- chéquier French
- croquembouche French
- emmi French
- en French
- en-cas French
- encas French
- enjôler French
- eurochèque French
- fer-blanc French
- metteuse en scène French
- passé simple French
- pissenlit French
- remplacer French
- en Spanish, Castilian
- *bʰleyǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- شيك Arabic
- blanka Esperanto
- en Ido
- séc Vietnamese
- blanc Middle French
- en Middle French
- សែក Central Khmer
- blan Haitian, Haitian Creole
- شيك Hijazi Arabic
- blan Antillean Creole