blueing
Britishnoun
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a blue material, such as indigo, used in laundering to counteract yellowing
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the formation of a film of blue oxide on a steel surface
Example Sentences
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Wash blue, or blueing, is a laundry product with iron powder and just a hint of blue dye.
From Salon • Mar. 17, 2021
This circumstance has led Sociologists Peter and Brigitte Berger to suggest that if what Charles Reich calls "the greening of America" goes on apace, it may shade into a "blueing of America."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Glen Alden Coal Co. of Buffalo and Rochester, N. Y., has made the last wash a blueing process.
From Time Magazine Archive
He passed the place where the blue violets were growing in the green moss—the same violets he had used to make Nurse Jane's blueing water for her clothes the other day, as I told you.
From Uncle Wiggily in the Woods by Garis, Howard Roger
Last week when they have tableaux, Patty has borrowed it and has dyed it with blueing to make a beard for Bluebeard.
From Just Patty by Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark)
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