Blacking

(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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• 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? 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Why, yes, Sir, said Joe, me and Wopsle went off straight to look at the Blacking Ware'us. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He had gone out to dinner; but his 'prentice (which is a very clever lad) sent 'em some medicine in a blacking-bottle, offhand. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Bayley's Blacking. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.

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