bleachery
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bleacheries
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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
Hi say we're some bleachery, that's what hi say!”
From Working With the Working Woman by Parker, Cornelia Stratton
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 Parker, Cornelia Stratton
These establishments are a New Jersey cotton mill, a bleachery in Delaware, and a cloth finishing factory in New England.
From Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls by Clark, Sue Ainslie
The bleachery folk, or their kind, I saw at the three church services I attended.
From Working With the Working Woman by Parker, Cornelia Stratton
My father was a wholesale merchant in straw goods, and had extensive dye works and bleacheries where the straw, silk and cotton braids were colored.
From The Boston Terrier and All About It A Practical, Scientific, and Up to Date Guide to the Breeding of the American Dog by Axtell, Edward
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 Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
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
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 Miller, Kelly
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
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