Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
whitester .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A whitener; a bleacher; a whitester.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
whitener ; ableacher ; awhitester .
Etymologies
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Contracted from whitester.
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Examples
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The whitster meant what we should now call a dyer and cleaner.
The King's Daughters Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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Add to these ‘whitster’ (female bleacher, Shakespeare),
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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