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shoeblack
[ shoo-blak ]
shoeblack
/ ˈʃuːˌblæk /
noun
- (esp formerly) a person who shines boots and shoes
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Word History and Origins
Origin of shoeblack1
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Example Sentences
He carefully made détours to escape these, and the shoeblack boys with whom he had been held in high favour.
Now fight to death for the boy that living you would not have hired as a shoeblack.
"I'm a moral shoeblack," repeated Grif, with an inclination to punch Dirty Bob's head.
A shoeblack in the foreground is teaching a poodle to dance; the comical animal's head is decorated with an old peruke.
Such an event as a shoeblack in South Audley Street was not to be passed by.
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