laundry blue

[′lȯn·drē ‚blü]

(materials)

Dye-containing solution used to give a blue tint to laundry-yellowed white cottons and linens; usually contains Prussian blue.

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Prussian blue

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I've got a kind of Chinese Limehouse laundry blue".

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