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bleachery

American  
[blee-chuh-ree] / ˈbli tʃə ri /

noun

  • bleacheries
    plural
  1. a place or establishment where bleaching is carried on.


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Etymology

Origin of bleachery

An Americanism dating back to 1705–15; bleach + -ery

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By the time his bleachery is ready, he hopes his ad campaign will make Springmaid well enough known to make him a major seller of finished goods.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was one union in the bleachery; that was in another department where mostly men were employed—the folders.

From Working With the Working Woman by Cornelia Stratton Parker

Many that day at the bleachery said they weren't going—didn't like Charlie Chaplin—common and pie-slinging; cheap; always all of that.

From Working With the Working Woman by Cornelia Stratton Parker

If the thought of the brassworks comes in one breath and the bleachery in the next, the poetry must needs be set to music—the Song of the Bleachery.

From Working With the Working Woman by Cornelia Stratton Parker

At least there was always the laughter, always the talk, always the visiting back and forth, at the bleachery.

From Working With the Working Woman by Cornelia Stratton Parker

We have furnished paper mills, tanneries and bleacheries, and other exposed places with waterproof link belts, and all have been entirely satisfactory so far.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 by Various

White maple forms an excellent top floor, although not so hard as others, especially where the floor is likely to be exposed to water, as in paper mills and bleacheries.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various

There are numerous saw-mills, shipbuilding yards, engineering works, distilleries, sugar refineries, tobacco factories, linen bleacheries and stained glass, salt and white lead works.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various

It is collected and compressed to a liquid form and shipped in containers under pressure for use in chemical works and bleacheries and for the purification of drinking water.

From Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Kelly Miller

This article is of principal utility to France, in her bleacheries of linen, glass-works, and soap-works; and the potash of America, being made of green wood, is known to be the best in the world.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph

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