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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of bleaching; a whitening.

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

  • noun obsolete Act of bleaching; a whitening.

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

  • noun chemistry, archaic The process or act of becoming or being made white, most commonly by bleaching; whitening.

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