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Meanings of bluing in English
Product used to improve optical whiteness of clothing or textiles.
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Examples for "blue"
Examples for "blue"
1
Semihard; blue; goat; mellow; small; square; a quarter to a half pound.
2
A sea of blue state police cars stood motionless ahead of them.
3
For example, left hand to blue crimp, right foot to green pinch.
4
The sea was quite calm, the sky was so clear and blue.
5
The wind blows soft; the sky is blue; the sun shines bright
1
The erythematous reaction began later and persisted longer than the blueing.
2
A very little blueing in the rinsing water gives a purer, clearer white.
3
I expect he's blueing some of that fiver in anticipation.
4
The blueing tends to counteract any yellow tinge in the clothes, making them appear whiter.
5
You know that you do not put much blueing into a washtub full of water.
Usage of bluing in English
1
Medium: Additional symptom of a bluing of the leg; also large blisters.
2
Moonlight dove in through the windows, bluing the planes of her face.
3
Nevertheless, he held it out; and Sam slyly dropped the bluing on it.
4
When it is used in washing clothes, it is called bluing.
5
Alice, I blue my hair-regularbluing water so as to keep it white.
6
Splash did look funny, all striped with bluing as he was.
7
Da stood before him, his opened torso bluing as it froze.
8
When a pure white is desired, add a little bluing to the starch water.
9
It will wash off, for it's only bluing, like mother puts on the clothes.
10
The sky is bluing above her, the pink fading away.
11
The bluing must be thoroughly mixed with the water.
12
She tidied his sacred cellar by throwing an empty bluing bottle into the trash bin.
13
Three stout watchtowers bordered it and thrust themselves even higher into the slowly bluing sky.
14
She was now preparing her bluing water in a small tub standing on three legs.
15
He could smell his clean white shirts in the armoire, soap and bluing and starch.
16
Boil well one hour; rinse in three waters; add a little bluing to the last water.
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Bluing through the time