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bleacher

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bleach⋅er

[blee-cher]
–noun
1. Usually, bleachers. a typically roofless section of inexpensive and unreserved seats in tiers, esp. at an open-air athletic stadium.
2. a person or thing that bleaches.
3. a container, as a vat or tank, used in bleaching.

Origin:
1540–50; 1885–90 for def. 1; bleach + -er 1
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bleach·er   (blē'chər)   
n.  
  1. One that bleaches or is used in bleaching.

  2. An often unroofed outdoor grandstand for seating spectators. Often used in the plural.


[Sense 2, from comparing a person's exposure to the sun when sitting on them with the exposure of linens bleaching on a clothesline.]
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