The gentlemen's costumes are "culottes courtes blanches, white silk stockings, and a dress-coat with gold buttons."
"In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875."
L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone
The capacity for accurate observation is a capacity so uncommon, and is so seldom associated, even where it does exist, with the equally rare gift of accurately describing the thing or the person observed, that Anne's dread of the consequences if Mrs. Inchbare was allowed time to comply with blanches request, was, in all probability, a dread misplaced.
"Man and Wife"
Wilkie Collins
By the stream where the stems were slender, Your bright foot paused at the sedge; It might be to watch the tender Light leaves in the springtime hedge, On boughs that the sweet month blanches With flowery frost of May: It might be a bird in the branches, It might be a thorn in the way.
"Poems & Ballads (First Series)"
Algernon Charles Swinburne