Not bleached.

Not bleached. Also elliptical.

(un-, prefix1 affix 2.)

= blae, adj. 5 (‘unbleached’). Frequent in Irish use.

Of clothing, fabric, or yarn: in an unbleached, undyed, or unfinished state. Cf. in the greige at greige, adj. n.phrases.

Dingy-coloured, ‘grey’, as opposed to white; unbleached. Usually in form blay, adj.