Blacking
['blækɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Black
(n.) Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.
(n.) The act or process of making black.
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Examples
- To oil your boots instead of blacking them, to dust your coat with a switch instead of a brush--was there ever anything more ridiculous? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Why, yes, Sir, said Joe, me and Wopsle went off straight to look at the Blacking Ware'us. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He had gone out to dinner; but his 'prentice (which is a very clever lad) sent 'em some medicine in a blacking-bottle, offhand. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Bayley's Blacking. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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