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Meanings of dolly blue in English

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Product used to improve optical whiteness of clothing or textiles.

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        Examples for "bluing"
        1
        Medium: Additional symptom of a bluing of the leg; also large blisters.
        Military Instructors Manual
        2
        Moonlight dove in through the windows, bluing the planes of her face.
        Stiltsville: a novel
        3
        Nevertheless, he held it out; and Sam slyly dropped the bluing on it.
        The Rover Boys at School; Or, The Cadets of Putnam Hall
        4
        When it is used in washing clothes, it is called bluing.
        Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans
        5
        Alice, I blue my hair-regularbluing water so as to keep it white.
        Ethel Hollister's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl
        1
        These were five ship-biscuits, a bottle of scent, and two balls of washing blue.
        In the South Seas / Being an Account of Experiences and Observat...
        2
        Shoving my nose closer, I inhaled deeply, irises washing blue as my sensory powers amplified the odor.
        Spike