It looked somewhat like the enclosure of a yarn-bleacher, except that the hanging strips, instead of being white, were of a beautiful clear ruby colour.
"Popular Adventure Tales"
Mayne Reid
She removed to another cottage, where she rented an acre or two of land, that enabled her to keep a cow, and gave her opportunity, as the place was situated beside a considerable stream, of earning a small income as a bleacher of home-made linen.
"Leading Articles on Various Subjects"
Hugh Miller
The whole face turned upon me full, And I spread myself beneath it, As when the bleacher spreads, to seethe it In the cleansing sun, his wool,- Steeps in the flood of noontide whiteness Some defiled, discoloured web- So lay I saturate, with brightness.
"Robert Browning"
Edward Dowden