In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
bleached, faded, washed-out, washy
(adjective) having lost freshness or brilliance of color; “sun-bleached deck chairs”; “faded jeans”; “a very pale washed-out blue”; “washy colors”
bleached, colored, coloured, dyed
(adjective) (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; “a bleached blonde”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
bleached (comparative more bleached, superlative most bleached)
Whitened; made white using bleach
Faded or washed out by weather and strong sunlight.
Having the hair lightened by bleaching.
• (whitened): blanched
• (faded or washed out): see also decoloured
bleached
simple past tense and past participle of bleach
Source: Wiktionary
Bleached, a.
Definition: Whitened; make white. Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron.
Bleach, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bleached; p. pr. & vb. n. Bleaching.] Etym: [OE. blakien, blechen, v. t. & v. i., AS. blacian, bl, to grow pale; akin to Icel. bleikja, Sw. bleka, Dan. blege, D. bleeken, G. bleichen, AS. blac pale. See Bleak, a.]
Definition: To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten. The destruction of the coloring matters attached to the bodies to be bleached is effected either by the action of the air and light, of chlorine, or of sulphurous acid. Ure. Immortal liberty, whose look sublime Hath bleached the tyrant's cheek in every varying clime. Smollett.
Bleach, v. i.
Definition: To grow white or lose color; to whiten.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
5 June 2025
(verb) raise or support (the level of printing) by inserting a piece of paper or cardboard under the type; “underlay the plate”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.