Bleached

ppl. a. Also 4–5 blaȝt, bleyȝt; see the vb. [f. BLEACH v.¹ + -ED.] Whitened (esp. by exposure to light and air), blanched; pale.

c. 1325.  E. E. Allit. P., A. 212. Her ble more blaȝt þen whallez bon.

1384.  Chaucer, Former Age, 45. No down of fetheres ne no bleched shete Was kyd to hem.

1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. xcvii. Than þe þred is sode, bleyȝt, and boukid.

a. 1400.  Alexander (Stev.), 54. As blaȝt ere thaire wedis As any snyppand snaw.

1601.  Weever, Mirr. Mart., F j b. Vnto my bleached cindars she might come.

1845.  Darwin, Voy. Nat., iv. (1879), 68. Bleached bones of horses.

1853.  Kane, Grinnell Exp., xxix. (1856), 240. The bleached faces of my mess-mates.

1859.  Geo. Eliot, A. Bede, 87. Her little store of bleached linen.