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GUEST,Paudman | Strange words in Irish and Scottish songs (26) | RE: Strange words in Irish and Scottish songs | 25 Jun 11 |
A Bleachgreen is from the linen trade; having grown up in a former Linen village in Ulster I grew up with terms like bleachgreen, scutching and beetling. A bleachgreen is where the cut flax was laid out to dry in the sun ie bleach white so the outer covering came off the linen fibres more easily. In the 1800s there were hundreds all over the country. |