bleachery

[ blee-chuh-ree ]

/ ˈbli tʃə ri /

a place or establishment where bleaching is carried on.

Origin of bleachery

An Americanism dating back to 1705–15; bleach + -ery

The Board of Operatives is intended to represent the interests of the workers in the bleachery.

Working With the Working Woman |Cornelia Stratton Parker
Verily, there is no “factory atmosphere” about the bleachery, compared with New York standards.

Working With the Working Woman |Cornelia Stratton Parker
At the Lowell bleachery fifteen million yards are dyed annually.

North America, Volume I (of 2) |Anthony Trollope
Sunday baseball—that day our bleachery team played the Keen Kutters—pained Mr. Welsh.

Working With the Working Woman |Cornelia Stratton Parker

She laid it down on the patch of grass Miss Holmes took great pains with for a bleachery.

A Little Girl in Old San Francisco |Amanda Minnie Douglas