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bootblack

NOUN
  1. a person who polishes shoes and boots

How To Use bootblack In A Sentence

  • Similar databases monitoring the investment policies and current rates of cab drivers, short-order cooks, and bootblacks are rapidly gaining in popularity.
  • Male children worked as bootblacks and newsboys while girls peddled ‘nice Hot Corn, smoking hot, smoking hot, just from the pot!’
  • I had seen photographs of him in magazines---a cadaverous dandy with a cap of bootblack hair scraped back from his bony brow. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  • They came to work in the large industrial cities of the Northeast and Midwest as factory laborers, peddlers, busboys, and bootblacks.
  • In his paintings of newsboys, bootblacks, and street urchins, John George Brown sentimentalized urban poverty, while Blythe depicted children smoking, stealing, and fighting.
  • One must not forget that the money used to pay the salaries was money which came from the worker, from the newsvendor, the bootblack or busboy, from people who received only 90 or 100 pesos. MASS MEETING OF ELECTRIC POWER PLANT WORKERS
  • He avoided factory settings; his heroes were newsboys, bootblacks, and clerks.
  • More often, contemporaries described such youths by their street occupation or activity: newsboys, copper pickers, wood-stealers, ragpickers, swill-gatherers, bootblacks.
  • Tinu, a bootblack, was so fascinated by the show that he strayed into the audience.
  • He avoided factory settings; his heroes were newsboys, bootblacks, and clerks.
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