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bluing
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Definition:1. The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel.2. Something to give a bluish tint, as indigo, or preparations used by washerwomen.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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she took those shirts and scrubbed them and soaked them overnight and bleached them and rinsed them in bluing till they looked alright except for a few black stains [...].
Marilynne Robinson. Gilead, p.81 (2004)
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The Count Del Monte ate a box of bluing once, but it didn't hurt him. Later, however, he lost his mind and ran madly up the street, bumping into fences, rolling in gutters, and pursuing his eccentric course out of Amory's life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Side of Paradise (1920)
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she aired them herself and blued them when they came home from the wash and ironed them and she had a brickbat to keep the iron on because she wouldn't trust those washerwomen as far as she'd see them scorching the things.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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Use a tiny bit of bleach and bluing and starch, so the shirts come out the color of frosted ice.
Robert Fulghum. Maybe (Maybe Not) (1993)
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