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Definition of Bootblack
1. Noun. A person who polishes shoes and boots.
Definition of Bootblack
1. n. One who blacks boots.
Definition of Bootblack
1. Noun. A shoeshine boy; a person who shines shoes as an occupation. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To shine shoes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bootblack
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bootblack
Literary usage of Bootblack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Read and Declaim by Grenville. Kleiser (1911)
"The black bootblack was, of course, willing to have his boots blacked by his
fellow bootblack, and the bootblack who had agreed to black the black ..."
2. The American Stud Book by Jockey Club (New York, N.Y.), Sanders Dewees Bruce (1898)
"1st dam Prairie Bird by imp. Sovereign. Zd dam Isabella by Boston. Produce— 1893, Ь.
с. by bootblack. 1895, bc by bootblack. 1894, bc Polish hy bootblack. ..."
3. A Family Flight Through France, Germany, Norway and Switzerland by Edward Everett Hale, Susan Hale (1881)
"A FAMILY FLIGHT. uniform, strutted with dignity through the spectators and idlers,
and pouched the gangway man with his baton. A bootblack. ..."
4. The Changing Race Relationship in the Border and Northern States by Hannibal Gerald Duncan (1922)
"Barbershops and bootblack stands are some more places of public accommodation
where race prejudice is making headway. In the South there are barbershops run ..."
5. How to Read and Declaim by Grenville. Kleiser (1911)
"The black bootblack was, of course, willing to have his boots blacked by his
fellow bootblack, and the bootblack who had agreed to black the black ..."
6. The American Stud Book by Jockey Club (New York, N.Y.), Sanders Dewees Bruce (1898)
"1st dam Prairie Bird by imp. Sovereign. Zd dam Isabella by Boston. Produce— 1893, Ь.
с. by bootblack. 1895, bc by bootblack. 1894, bc Polish hy bootblack. ..."
7. A Family Flight Through France, Germany, Norway and Switzerland by Edward Everett Hale, Susan Hale (1881)
"A FAMILY FLIGHT. uniform, strutted with dignity through the spectators and idlers,
and pouched the gangway man with his baton. A bootblack. ..."
8. The Changing Race Relationship in the Border and Northern States by Hannibal Gerald Duncan (1922)
"Barbershops and bootblack stands are some more places of public accommodation
where race prejudice is making headway. In the South there are barbershops run ..."
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