blueing

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

"The man who invented a 21-inch collar ought to be forced to suck boiling starch through the neck of a Blueing Bottle!" — Fairy Prince and Other Stories, Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
He said to himself: “When I shall have made my balls of blueing, I shall be rich, I will withdraw my copperplates from the pawn-shop, I will put my Flora in vogue again with trickery, plenty of money and advertisements in the newspapers and I will buy, I know well where, a copy of Pierre de Médine’s Art de Naviguer, with wood-cuts, edition of 1655.” In the meantime, he toiled all day over his plot of indigo, and at night he returned home to water his garden, and to read his books. — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

bluing, blue

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