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What is a brightener?

What is a brightener? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who or that which brightens.
  2. A chemical agent that absorbs ultraviolet and violet light and re-emits blue light by fluorescence, used to make fabric or paper look whiter.
  3. (metallurgy) Any substance added to an electrolytic bath to yield a brighter electroplated surface.
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But I felt that my reputation as a brightener was at stake, with Terry's hopes.
The paper is produced without optical brightener and chlorine, and has several certificates, among others the Blue Angel and the European Flower.
They'll use a cleanser, exfoliator, toner, mask, skin firmer, brightener, serum and moisturizer in one routine.
But chaperonage was far from the whole destiny of a brightener.
These included an opener, a brightener, a lifter, a tincture, a snifter and a snort.
A brightener need not confine herself to female society, as a mere Companion must.

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