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blueing
/ ˈːɪŋ /
noun
a blue material, such as indigo, used in laundering to counteract yellowing
the formation of a film of blue oxide on a steel surface
Example Sentences
The area targeted for a school purge near Houston is also a blueing suburb.
Suburban defections across Northern Virginia, the Greater Richmond region and Hampton Roads accounted for much of the blueing of the Old Dominion.
Wash blue, or blueing, is a laundry product with iron powder and just a hint of blue dye.
I cannot bear to be let go, clenched in my quilt, a phantom receding, it rustles off, the dawn barely blueing the air, the static stopped.
“And look at the blueing,” cried Cora, pointing to a mass of blue water flowing from a pipe outside the structure.
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