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Verb
bootblacking
- present participle and gerund of bootblack
Noun
bootblacking (uncountable)
- The practice of shining shoes; shoe-shining.
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 7:
- A smell of scent soap and bootblacking[.]
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