Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Blacking.
- To smear with blacking; black.
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Examples
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Accordingly, when they had neatly picked out the fig with their teeth from old Thacor's snatch-blatch, they plainly showed it the headsman, saying,
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Thacor’s snatch-blatch, they plainly showed it the headsman, saying, Ecco lo fico, Behold the fig!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Thacor’s snatch-blatch, they plainly showed it the headsman, saying, Ecco lo fico, Behold the fig!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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