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/blˈuɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Blue v. t. (past & past part. blued; pres. part. bluing) To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.

noun

Bluing n.

The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel.

Something, as indigo or other preparations, used to give a bluish tint, especially to white clothing when being washed.

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Etymology of 'Bluing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bluing" Quotes from Famous Books

... napkin itself was a newly introduced luxury. The conversation of the hostess and her guests turned upon details of the kitchen and the laundry; upon the best mode of raising bread, whether with "emptins" (emptyings, yeast) or baking powder; about "bluing" and starching and crimping, and similar matters. Poor Mrs. Butts! She knew nothing more about such things than her hostess did about Shakespeare and the musical glasses. What was the use of trying to enforce social intercourse under such conditions? Incompatibility ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... back over the months I spent at Sunnyside, I wonder that I survived at all. As it is, I show the wear and tear of my harrowing experiences. I have turned very gray—Liddy reminded me of it, only yesterday, by saying that a little bluing in the rinse-water would make my hair silvery, instead of a yellowish white. I hate to be reminded of unpleasant things and ...

— The Circular Staircase • Mary Roberts Rinehart