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blancmange [blancmange 词源字典]: blancmange: [14] Blancmange means literally simply ‘white food’. It comes from a French compound made up of blanc ‘white’ and manger, a noun derived from the verb manger ‘eat’ (related to English manger). Originally it was a savoury dish, of chicken or similar white meat in a sauce made with cream, eggs, rice, etc and often sugar and almonds. Gradually the meat content came to be omitted, and blancmange turned into a sweet dish, typically containing gelatine.
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acme (n.): "highest point," 1560s, from Greek akme "(highest) point, edge; peak of anything," from PIE root *ak- "sharp" (see acrid). Written in Greek letters until c. 1620. The U.S. grocery store chain was founded 1891 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
blancmange (n.): late 14c., from Old French blancmengier (13c.), literally "white eating," originally a dish of fowl minced with cream, rice, almonds, sugar, eggs, etc.; from blanc "white" (also used in Old French of white foods, such as eggs, cream, also white meats such as veal and chicken; see blank (adj.)) + mangier "to eat" (see manger).
McMillan: Irish surname, from Gaelic Mac Mhaolain "son of the tonsured one."
Micmac: Algonquian tribe of the Canadian Maritimes and Newfoundland, by 1776, from mi:kemaw, a native name said to mean literally "allies."
acmite: "An iron-containing mineral of the pyroxene group, which occurs as dark green, pointed crystals", Early 19th cent. Originally from Swedish Achmit from Greek ἀχμή, supposed variant of ancient Greek ἀκμή point + -it, so called on account of the shape of its crystals. In later use altered after ancient Greek ἀκμή.