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Bluing   Listen
noun
Bluing  n.  
1.
The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel.
2.
Something, as indigo or other preparations, used to give a bluish tint, especially to white clothing when being washed.





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"Bluing" Quotes from Famous Books



... big, broad-shouldered man, tanned to the very limit of brownness, painfully clean shaven, and grotesquely clean in dress; a white shirt, innocent of bluing in its laundry, a glistening celluloid collar, a black necktie (the last two features evidently just added to the toilet, and neither as yet set to their service), dark pantaloons and freshly blacked shoes. But it was Shirley's face that caught Virginia's ...
— Winning the Wilderness • Margaret Hill McCarter


Words linked to "Bluing" :   chemical process, dye, blue, dyestuff, chemical change


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