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/blˈuɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Blue v. t. (past & past part. blued; pres. part. bluing) To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.

noun

Bluing n.

The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel.

Something, as indigo or other preparations, used to give a bluish tint, especially to white clothing when being washed.

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Etymology of 'Bluing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bluing" Quotes from Famous Books

... fine place. Of course there's always a wonder in my mind where they get all the hot water for the geysers. It looks to me like a industrial waste. If the geysers could be used for laundries, that would be something like. Then, again, they're all the same color. If they'd throw in some bluing now and then, or some red or green, they'd look prettier—that'd give more variety, like. Yet they say these geysers has been running for years and no let-up. Ain't it funny the things you see, away ...

— Maw's Vacation - The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone • Emerson Hough

... big, broad-shouldered man, tanned to the very limit of brownness, painfully clean shaven, and grotesquely clean in dress; a white shirt, innocent of bluing in its laundry, a glistening celluloid collar, a black necktie (the last two features evidently just added to the toilet, and neither as yet set to their service), dark pantaloons and freshly blacked shoes. But it was Shirley's face that caught Virginia's ...

— Winning the Wilderness • Margaret Hill McCarter