English

Noun

bleachfield ‎(plural bleachfields)

1. (now chiefly historical) A field where cloth or clothing is laid out to be bleached by the sun or water.
   • 2001, Anthea Bell, translating WG Sebald, Austerlitz, Penguin 2011, p. 183:

     Or I imagined the bleachfields stretching westwards from Bedlam, saw the white lengths of linen spread out on the green grass and the diminutive figures of weavers and washerwomen […].