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bootblack
/ ˈbuːtˌblæk /
noun
- another word for shoeblack
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bootblack1
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Example Sentences
We don’t think of the thousand other bootblacks who will not meet their benefactors, boys whom the text dismisses as ruffians or ne’er-do-wells or simply never acknowledges at all.
From New York Times
Some bootblacks sat together under a tree talking to a soldier.
From Literature
His pleasure in the attentions of the bootblack’s whisk reflected a consciousness about clothes unusual in a small-town man.
From Literature
He forced himself to remember the dullest things he knew—bootblack, an application form, a wet towel on his bedroom floor.
From Literature
At the corner two bootblacks caught me, one on either side, shrill and raucous, like blackbirds.
From Literature
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