unbleaching
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unbleaching (not comparable)
- Not to be bleached away.
- 1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza LXXXVIII:
- Let their bleach'd bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, / Long mark the battle-field with hideous awe.