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wash a blackamoor white

verb

Definitions

  1. To labour in vain, especially so as to present something as better than it really is

    To labour in vain, especially so as to present something as better than it really is; to whitewash.

    • It is not my Intention to put myself in a Perspiration concerning any of the Hieroglyphic Emblems, or Monstrosities of the Egyptians, for it is all Labour in vain, or washing a Blackamoor white.
    • And universally, all Endeavours to vindicate a bad Cause, are but making it the worse. The Moral in my Last Paper was intended to caution you against attempting to wash the Blackamoor white: but you are resolved to struggle.

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