Unbleached

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8. Cf. MDu. and Du. ongebleekt, G. ungebleicht, Sw. oblekt, Da. ubleget, -blegt.] Not bleached. Also ellipt.

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1531–2. Durham Househ. Bk. (Surtees), 68. Et in 15¹/₂ ulnis unbleched emptis.

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1570. Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees, 1835), 337. Thre peces of vnbleched lynne xxx^s.

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1648. Hexham, II. Ongebleyckt lijnwaedt, Vnbleached linen.

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1756. F. Home, Exper. Bleaching, 182. Into this mixture the same quantity of the same unbleached cloth was put.

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1842. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett. (1883), I. 175. Mr. Byng … was dressed from head to foot in unbleached linen.

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1880. Plain Hints Needlework, 79. In the North,… unbleached diaper can be procured.

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transf. and fig. 1815. Jane Austen, Emma, lv. The stain of illegitimacy, unbleached by nobility or wealth, would have been a stain indeed.

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1865. Slang Dict., 264. Unbleached American, the new Yankee term for coloured natives of the United States.

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