bleachern.
/ˈbliːtʃə/, U.S. /ˈblitʃər/ 1. One who bleaches.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitener > [noun] > bleaching agent > bleacher
pleykstare1440
whitster1440
whitener1540
bleacher1550
bleaker1611
crofter1772
1550 M. Coverdale tr. O. Werdmueller Spyrytuall & Precyouse Pearle vi. sig. Dv The dyer blecher or the laundres.
1704 A. van Leeuwenhoek in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 24 1526 A Bleecher cast Water with his Scoop.
1850 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders 400 Wool-combers, bleachers, and fullers.
1863 J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Bk. Gen. (i. 26) 70 He [sc. man] has made..the sun his bleacher and painter.
2. A vessel used in bleaching.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitener > [noun] > bleaching agent > vessel used
bleacher1883
1883 Cent. Mag. 26 812 Poured into the bleachers—boxes with perforated bottoms.
3. One of a roofless set of benches for spectators at outdoor events such as baseball and football games; also, an occupant of these benches. Usually in plural. Also attributive. Originally and chiefly U.S.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun] > gallery or stand for spectators
seld1598
stand1615
ventilator1822
spectatory1829
press gallery1869
bleacher1889
bleachery1909
waving-base1954
1889 Chicago Tribune 18 May 6/1 The grand stand and bleachers were well filled with something over 2,000 spectators.
1892 Alumni Weekly (New Haven) 1 Mar. These Yale patrons..buy seats for the game..on bleacher & the grand stand close to the enemy's goal.
1900 A. F. West Amer. College 25 Or they are thronging to fill the ‘bleachers’ at a baseball or football game that is about to be played on the college grounds.
1904 N.Y. Amer. 5 May 13 The bleachers of the club grounds have been so enlarged this season as to accommodate about 12000 persons... The largest of these open bleachers is about 325 feet long and 28 seats deep.
1917 C. Mathewson Second Base Sloan xviii. 237 The two boys settled themselves in their places on the bleachers.
1917 C. Mathewson Second Base Sloan xviii. 238 More than half of the bleacher seats were empty.
1964 Sun-Herald (Brisbane) 21 June 136/5 Those empty bleachers at the Beatles' concerts on Thursday and Friday.
1968 Listener 29 Feb. 261/2 The many innocent spectators on the south-east bleachers.
4. Photography. An agent for bleaching a negative or print (see bleach v.1 2c).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > chemicals > [noun] > others
accelerator1843
nitroglucose1852
restrainer1865
medium1867
intensifier1883
stop bath1898
opaque1908
bleacher1911
coupler1938
wash1953
1911 Cassell's Cycl. Photogr. 196/1 Any reducer or bleacher may be used.
1912 F. J. Mortimer Wall's Dict. Photogr. (ed. 9) 113 If the print is a big one it is generally as well to wet it..before placing it in the bleacher.
Derivatives
ˈbleacherite n. U.S. a frequenter of bleachers.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > beholder or spectator > at sport
racegoer1838
ringsider1889
fan1890
bleacherite1896
ring-worm1929
Koppite1960
1896 Chicago Tribune 3 July 9/3 The money for it is being subscribed by the bleacherites.
1917 C. Mathewson Second Base Sloan xviii. 239 ‘Sailor’ was a grand favourite with the bleacherites.
ˈbleachery n. U.S. an open-air stand for spectators.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun] > gallery or stand for spectators
seld1598
stand1615
ventilator1822
spectatory1829
press gallery1869
bleacher1889
bleachery1909
waving-base1954
1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Bleacherite, Bleachery.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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