Shoeblacks

Word SHOEBLACKS
Character 10
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Definitions and meanings of "Shoeblacks"

What do we mean by shoeblacks?

One who cleans and polishes shoes (and boots) as an occupation.

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The word "shoeblacks" in example sentences

It's the twenty-first century and we still have maids and waiters and doormen and drivers and guards and caretakers and house painters and tutors and shoeblacks and prostitutes. ❋ Bill Yarrow (2011)

Under the porch of the general post office shoeblacks called and polished. ❋ Unknown (2003)

In France the shoeblacks are all Savoyards, the porters of hotels all Swiss, and in the days of hoops and hair-powder in England, no man could give the regular swing to a sedan-chair but a bog-trotting Irishman. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Here he is generally surrounded by an admiring throng of hostlers, stable-boys, shoeblacks, and those nameless hangers-on, that infest inns and taverns, and run errands, and do all kind of odd jobs, for the privilege of battening on the drippings of the kitchen and the leakage of the tap-room. ❋ Unknown (2002)

It was in this state that Master Tom lay at half-past seven on the morning following the day of his arrival, and from his clean little white bed watched the movements of Bogle (the generic name by which the successive shoeblacks of the School-house were known), as he marched round from bed to bed, collecting the dirty shoes and boots, and depositing clean ones in their places. ❋ Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (1971)

In 1851 the novelties included "Electro-biology," i.e. hypnotism; shoeblacks; electric clocks; false legs,2 invented by Palmer, an American; and the supply of tea to the Navy. ❋ Charles Larcom (1921)

Peripatetic shoeblacks pursued pedestrians, and no sensitive gentleman was safe from them merely because he had carefully and well shined his own shoes before he came out. ❋ Ralph Bergengren (1909)

They sneered at rebel officers of humble origin as convicts and shoeblacks. ❋ George McKinnon Wrong (1904)

Americans yet, except the kind who boast of having begun as shoeblacks, whose great-great-grand-parents didn't cross in the _Mayflower_. ❋ Unknown (1901)

To make matters worse, politics were allowed to play a prominent part in the selection of officers, and Washington complained that “the different States [were], without regard to the qualifications of an officer, quarrelling about the appointments, and nominating such as are not fit to be shoeblacks, from the attachments of this or that member of Assembly.” ❋ Ford, Paul L (1896)

Like the rest of the audience, these boys were of the class they call Facchini, that is, porters, coachmen, shop assistants, shoeblacks, water-sellers, and so on. ❋ Henry Festing Jones (1889)

Kicking aside the shoeblacks who began to importune him as he passed under the colonnade, he turned up the narrow passage to the publishing-office of the Post-Office ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)

One morning he took the old blacking-brushes which he had used for years for his one boot, and a little pot of blacking, and an old box, and walked far away across the river, to a place where no one could know him, and there tried to earn a little by rivalling with the shoeblacks. ❋ George Gissing (1880)

In less than no time, this ditty became popular; and when Tartarin came by, the longshoremen and the little shoeblacks before his door sang in chorus -- ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)

Do not scullions, shoeblacks, cobblers, among pots and pans, or in camp, or in any other sordid employment, learn ❋ David Masson (1864)

All form a line, the gentlemen consisting of dealers in fabrics, in instruments, jewellers, hawkers, lackeys, shoeblacks, creditors, in short everything imaginable that is most ridiculous and annoying. ❋ Hippolyte Taine (1860)

"Well," said I, with a laugh, "there is no reason why shoeblacks should not require and desire a holiday as much as other people, only it's unusual -- because they cannot afford it, I suppose." ❋ Unknown (1859)

On my inquiring what that meant, he said that he had started the idea of providing employment for poor street boys, by furnishing them with brushes and blacking, and forming them into regular companies of shoeblacks. ❋ Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)

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