[Ads-l] cleanser

[George Thompson]

"Old Dutch" was a Cleanser.

Old codgers will remember the labels on its containers, showing a girl in
Dutch costume "chasing dirt".

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On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:38 AM Joan Hall <
00000876364530cf-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> Here is DARE’s entry:
>
> cleanser n
> eNew England<
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> >, esp Boston<
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> > Massachusetts<
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> > area
>
> A dry cleaner.
>
>
>   *   1958 AmSp<
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> > 33.158, The area in which cleaning and cleaners become cleansing and
> cleansers shows a striking coincidence with the major portion of the
> classic Atlas ‘tonic’ area of eastern New England. . . in Boston and its
> environs, extending westerly as far as Worcester, they [cleansers and
> cleansing establishments] began to appear in profusion.
>   *   1961 AmSp<
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> > 36.225, In the area pivoting on Boston, cleanser seems to be a survival
> of a genuine regionalism, probably now found chiefly in the names of firms.
> The Boston Directory for 1907, pp. 2051–52, has the headings Cleansers and
> Cleansing Works, with not a cleaner in sight. . . The 1958 Yellow Pages for
> Portland, Maine, . . lists 10 cleansers to 18 cleaners. Other New England
> cities outside the [tonic] area have a much lower proportion: Burlington,
> Vt., one to 12; Concord, N.H., one to 11; Manchester, N.H., 4 to 21.
>   *   1966 PMLA<
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> > 81.2.11, A Middle Western academician transplanted to MIT quickly learns
> to order tonic for his children, not soda pop, and to send his clothes to a
> cleanser.
>
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-- 
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851

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