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单词 unbleached
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unbleachedadj.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈbliːtʃt/, U.S. /ˌənˈblitʃt/
Etymology: un- prefix1 2. Compare Middle Dutch and Dutch ongebleekt, German ungebleicht, Swedish oblekt, Danish ubleget, -blegt.
Not bleached. Also elliptical.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitening > [adjective] > bleached > not bleached
unblancheda1475
unbleached1531
unwhited1621
blay1785
in the grey1795
blae-
1531–2 in J. Raine Durham Househ. Bk. (1844) 68 Et in 15⅓ ulnis unbleched emptis.
1570 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 337 Thre peces of vnbleched lynne xxxz.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Ongebleyckt lijnwaedt, vnbleached linnen.
1756 F. Home Exper. Bleaching 182 Into this mixture the same quantity of the same unbleached cloth was put.
1842 J. W. Carlyle Lett. (1883) I. 175 Mr. Byng..was dressed from head to foot in unbleached linen.
1880 L. S. Floyer Plain Hints Examiners Needlework 79 In the North,..unbleached diaper can be procured.
figurative and in extended use.1816 J. Austen Emma III. xix. 357 The stain of illegitimacy, unbleached by nobility or wealth, would have been a stain indeed. View more context for this quotation1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Unbleached American, the new Yankee term for coloured natives of the United States.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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