The phrase "a blanche" is not correct in standard written English.
It appears to be a misinterpretation or misspelling of "a blank" or "blanche" in a different context.
Example: "I need a blank sheet of paper to write my notes."
Alternatives: "a blank" or "a void".
Yes, there will be a Blanche Sweet film, "The Painted Lady," shown on video during the event.
Downstairs there is a Blanche & Hierta wine bar with wine board games and over 300 wines to choose from.
But in precisely the sort of exhilarating paradox on which the theater thrives, I've never seen a Blanche so fully in command of the contradictions that drive the heroine of Tennessee Williams's play.
Loneliness, too, looms scarily large for a Blanche who finds solace, however brief, in Stanley's poker-playing buddy, Mitch, whose own acquaintanceship with mortality in the guise of an ailing, if unseen, mother strikes a truly resonant chord with Blanche.
Van Hove, a Belgian director who has become a much admired and much reviled figure in the New York theatre world — his 1999 interpretation of Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire," for instance, featured a Blanche who played almost all her scenes in a tub — more or less follows Bergman's narrative arc.
Inevitably, there were some reviews that huffed and puffed, with one blogger dismissing the idea of a Blanche Dubois with a disability as "ludicrous": it was a reminder just how far British theatre still has to go to counter the prejudice disabled performers face.
He has refused an invitation to a tenue blanche ouverte, a masonic meeting that non-freemasons may attend.
This does not mean offering a carte blanche to a brutal regime that has engaged in a litany of appalling war crimes.
In a parallel journalistic universe, a vituperative right-wing journalist wrote about a film blanche; this elicited a torrent of e-mail messages from multilingual readers of The International Herald Tribune correcting it to film blanc.
But within its 320 square meters, or nearly 3,500 square feet, Mrs. Rooney Duval saw the architectural equivalent of a carte blanche in a city filled with traditional Haussmann residences and what she calls their "flat" interiors.
– (DE) The approval of the European Parliament for the new Commission does not constitute a carte blanche, but a vote of confidence.
