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Blueing   /blˈuɪŋ/   Listen
Blueing

noun
1.
Used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge.  Synonyms: blue, bluing.
2.
A process that makes something blue (or bluish).  Synonym: bluing.






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"Blueing" Quotes from Famous Books



... of 'em got it by stealing real estate in 1820, and some by selling Jamaica rum and niggers way back before the Revolutionary War—they've been respectable so long that they know mighty well and good that nobody except a Britisher is going to question their blue blood—and oh my, what good blueing third-generation money does make. But out here in God's Country, the marquises of milling and the barons of beef are still uneasy. Even their pretty women, after going to the best hair-dressers and patronizing the best charities, sometimes ...
— Free Air • Sinclair Lewis

... groaned. "It may be blueing streaks," she said, but there was little comfort in blueing streaks. She got her opera glasses and peered through them at her beloved dresses. Brought up at close range, they were certainly blue-streaked, and there was plain lack of the snowy ...
— Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings • Annie Hamilton Donnell

... monsieur, and another to turn out a quantity," said the tall Cointet, addressing David. "Quite another thing, as you may judge from this single fact. We manufacture colored papers. We buy parcels of coloring absolutely identical. Every cake of indigo used for 'blueing' our post-demy is taken from a batch supplied by the same maker. Well, we have never yet been able to obtain two batches of precisely the same shade. There are variations in the material which we cannot detect. ...
— Eve and David • Honore de Balzac

... by stealing real estate in 1820, and some by selling Jamaica rum and niggers way back before the Revolutionary War—they've been respectable so long that they know mighty well and good that nobody except a Britisher is going to question their blue blood—and oh my, what good blueing third-generation money does make. But out here in God's Country, the marquises of milling and the barons of beef are still uneasy. Even their pretty women, after going to the best hair-dressers and patronizing the best charities, ...
— Free Air • Sinclair Lewis

... with the excessive quantities of acetate of soda and the insufficiency of potassium iodide in the cases of c and f, there was no difficulty with the after-blueing. ...
— A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. • Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer



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