1736 Canting Dictionary / B / BLEACH [v]
as The Mort lay last Night a Bleaching; the Wench looks very fair to Day.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
The Vulgar Tongue originally collected by Grose, 1811.
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).