bootblacking

English

Verb

bootblacking

present participle of bootblack

Noun

bootblacking (uncountable)

The practice of shining shoes; shoe-shining.
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, OCLC 751607383, page 7:
  A smell of scent soap and bootblacking[.]

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