Blade is a lightweight yet powerful templating engine that provides a clean syntax for writing views in Laravel applications. It allows you to write templates with dynamic content, includes, conditionals, loops, and other control structures. Blade templates are typically stored in the resources/views directory and have a .blade.php file extension.

Blade templates in Laravel are designed to be concise and expressive, making it easier for developers to create and maintain views for their web applications. They also provide features like template inheritance, sections, and components, which contribute to building modular and reusable views.