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Bleached

adjective
1.
Having lost freshness or brilliance of color.  Synonyms: faded, washed-out, washy.  "Faded jeans" , "A very pale washed-out blue" , "Washy colors"
2.
(used of color) artificially produced; not natural.  Synonyms: colored, coloured, dyed.



Bleach

verb
(past & past part. bleached; pres. part. bleaching)
2.
Make whiter or lighter.



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"Bleached" Quotes from Famous Books



... little old lady shading her eyes from the sunlight. They had been large and dark once; now the filmy rim of age was visible about the iris. Her white hair lay in neat ringlets upon her brow, which was wrinkled like a fine parchment. Her skin, bleached to a bloodless whiteness, retained still some of the soft ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... the surface in black earth, consisting of two species of Mytilus, two of Crepidula, one of Concholepas, of Fissurella, Venus, Mactra, Turbo, Monoceros, and the Balanus psittacus. These shells were bleached, and within some of the Balani other Balani were growing, showing that they must have long lain dead in the sea. The above species I compared with living ones from the bay, and found them identical; but having since lost the specimens, I cannot give their names: this is of little importance, ...
— South American Geology - also: - Title: Geological Observations On South America • Charles Darwin

... hanging loosely behind his back, but altogether different from the well-known garment of the gauchos, which is usually woven from wool. That on the shoulders of the young Indian is of no textile fabric, but the skin of a fawn, tanned and bleached to the softness and whiteness of a dress kid glove, the outward side being elaborately feather-worked in flowers and patterns, the feathers obtained from many ...
— Gaspar the Gaucho - A Story of the Gran Chaco • Mayne Reid

... awful?" muttered Hiram as a file of blue-coat boys shambled past, with hair cut square across their foreheads and bleached white with the sun. "Ain't got a grain of sense! Look at 'em!—all crowded clean out by ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 31. October, 1873. • Various

... great poet of our era? Byron has given admirable expression to certain moral conflicts, but our immortal naturalist has reconstructed past worlds from a few bleached bones; has rebuilt cities, like Cadmus, with monsters' teeth; has animated forests with all the secrets of zoology gleaned from a piece of coal; has discovered a giant population from the footprints ...
— The Magic Skin • Honore de Balzac


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