See blench on Wiktionary
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"ref": "a. 1870, William Cullen Bryant, The Battle-Field:",
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"ref": "1820, Francis Jeffrey, “Life of Curran”, in The Edinburgh Review May 1820:",
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"text": "\"This,\" said Dunraven with a vast gesture that did not blench at the cloudy stars, and that took in the black moors, the sea, and a majestic, tumbledown edifice that looked like a stable fallen upon hard times, \"is my ancestral land.\""
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"(intransitive) To fly off; to turn aside."
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