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unˈbleached, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. MDu. and Du. ongebleekt, G. ungebleicht, Sw. oblekt, Da. ubleget, -blegt.]
Not bleached. Also ellipt.
1531–2Durham Househ. Bk. (Surtees) 68 Et in 151/3 ulnis unbleched emptis. 1570Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees, 1835) 337 Thre peces of vnbleched lynne xxxz. 1648Hexham ii, Ongebleyckt lijnwaedt, Vnbleached linen. 1756F. Home Exper. Bleaching 182 Into this mixture the same quantity of the same unbleached cloth was put. 1842Mrs. Carlyle Lett. (1883) I. 175 Mr. Byng..was dressed from head to foot in unbleached linen. 1880Plain Hints Needlework 79 In the North,..unbleached diaper can be procured.
transf. and fig.1815Jane Austen Emma lv, The stain of illegitimacy, unbleached by nobility or wealth, would have been a stain indeed. 1865Slang Dict. 264 Unbleached American, the new Yankee term for coloured natives of the United States. |