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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… employed in the cotton-works, and in the printing and bleaching establishments connected with them. Gattonside …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… imprisonment of N. Oudart at prisoner at Hair, patent for bleaching and curling, requested granted Halcartowne. See …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… extremely rapid in its advance. Several large factories, bleaching-grounds, and printfields, for which the situation … of chloride of lime, in powder, for the purpose of bleaching; and in 1808, he established very extensive … of about an acre, laid down in grass for the purpose of bleaching linen, in which some of the inmates are employed. …
The Estate and Household Accounts of William Worsley, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, 1479-1497
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… linen. Much of both according to the act was intended for bleaching into WHITE LINEN [Acts (1711)]. OED earliest date …