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Definition of Bootblacks
1. bootblack [n] - See also: bootblack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bootblacks
Literary usage of Bootblacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Secrets of the Great City: A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the by James Dabney McCabe (1868)
"THE bootblacks. The bootblacks form a peculiar feature of New York life. ...
Some of them are newsboys early in the morning, and bootblacks for the rest of ..."
2. Child Labor in City Streets by Edward Nicholas Clopper (1912)
"CHAPTER IV bootblacks, PEDDLERS AND MARKET CHILDREN bootblacks THE itinerant
bootblack is gradually disappearing from our cities, but he is still found in ..."
3. Darkness and Daylight: Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life by Helen Campbell (1896)
"... Life in the Gutter — Old Sol — Running a Grocery under Difficulties —Youthful
Criminals — Newsboys and bootblacks—Candidates for Crime — "He's Smart, ..."
4. English Ways and By-ways: Being the Letters of John and Ruth Dobson Written by Leighton Parks (1920)
"XVIII BRIGANDS AND bootblacks THE car was not ready for us the next day. Indeed,
I found that the garage was not able to do anything with it, ..."
5. Illustrated de Luxe Catalogue of the Old and Modern Masters Collected by the by Irving Murray Scott, Thomas Ellis Kirby, American Art Association (1906)
"44 JG BROWN, NA AMERICAN 1831— DRESS PARADE A number of street urchins, several
of them bootblacks, are lined up against a plastered wall in mock imitation ..."
6. In Other Words by Franklin Pierce Adams (1912)
"On a Certain Propensity of bootblacks to Toy with the Shoelaces of the Shinee
Polishing little rapscallion, Shining away at my shoes, Be thou or Greek or ..."
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