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Bleachers

noun

An outdoor grandstand without a roof; patrons are exposed to the sun as linens are when they are bleached.

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"Bleachers" Quotes from Famous Books

... nothing but a manufacturer. The labour, too, which is necessary to produce any one complete manufacture, is almost always divided among a great number of hands. How many different trades are employed in each branch of the linen and woollen manufactures, from the growers of the flax and the wool, to the bleachers and smoothers of the linen, or to the dyers and dressers of the cloth! The nature of agriculture, indeed, does not admit of so many subdivisions of labour, nor of so complete a separation of one business from another, as manufactures. ...

— An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations • Adam Smith

... you make that out? I sat in the bleachers all afternoon, waiting for something to break loose. Doesn't ...

— Piccadilly Jim • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

... were greatly annoyed by the Chinese who insisted on swarming into camp. Finally, unable longer to endure their insolent stares, I drove them with stones to the top of the hill, where they sat in row upon row exactly as in the "bleachers" ...

— Camps and Trails in China - A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China • Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews

Words linked to "Bleachers" : stand, plural form, plural