Blank
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]- As a Dutch and German surname, from the adjective blank (“shining, pale, white”).
- As an English and Jewish surname, spelling variant of Blanc, Blanck.
Proper noun
[edit]Blank
- A surname.
- 1987, Latin American Research Review, page 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.
- (chiefly dated) Used as an anonymous placeholder for a person's name.
- 1922, The Saturday Review, volume 133, page 359:
- Miss Compton, in 'Other People's Worries,' asks rhetorically whether a young rip was not in the Blank divorce case.