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Blacking; so called from Larry Dugan, a noted shoeblack of Dublin, whose face was always smudged with his blacking.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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