Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A place for bleaching; an establishment where the bleaching of textile fabrics, etc., is carried on.
  • noun An outdoor stand from which spectators may view something, especially a game of foot-ball or base-ball.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A place or an establishment where bleaching is done.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A place or an establishment where bleaching is done.

Etymologies

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bleach +‎ -ery

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Examples

  • In short, he was a nephew whose peer could not be found in all Sweden, and who knows whether the piece of linen he chose from the bleachery was the last he received from his indulgent aunt.

    The Home in the Valley Emilie Flygare-Carle��n 1849

  • In that case we should have motored sooner or later by the bleachery gate and past numerous company houses.

    Working With the Working Woman Cornelia Stratton Parker

  • The actual number working in the bleachery was about six hundred and twenty men and women.

    Working With the Working Woman Cornelia Stratton Parker

  • Many that day at the bleachery said they weren't going — didn't like Charlie

    Working With the Working Woman Cornelia Stratton Parker

  • Verily, there is no “factory atmosphere” about the bleachery, compared with New York standards.

    Working With the Working Woman Cornelia Stratton Parker

  • Therefore, she must have her tin shower at the bleachery.

    Working With the Working Woman Cornelia Stratton Parker

  • There was one union in the bleachery; that was in another department where mostly men were employed — the folders.

    Working With the Working Woman Cornelia Stratton Parker

  • In that community, so it seems, a child is born, attends school up to the minimum required, or a bit beyond, and then goes to work in the bleachery — though a few do find their way instead to the overall factory, and still fewer to the shirtwaist factory.

    Working With the Working Woman Cornelia Stratton Parker

  • Let those who prefer to sob over woman labor behind factory prison bars visit our bleachery.

    Working With the Working Woman Cornelia Stratton Parker

  • A family had moved away, thereby detaching a worker from the bleachery — the girl who ticketed pillow cases.

    Working With the Working Woman Cornelia Stratton Parker

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