rubbing-down
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No wonder that, in such paintings as Eclipse at Newmarket, With a Groom and a Jockey, circa 1770, the plain rubbing-down houses on Newmarket Heath look like neo-Egyptian shrines, pyramids of the turf.
From Time Magazine Archive
However, the operation gave me immediate relief, which encouraged me to submit to another rubbing-down before I went to bed; and it was so effectual, that I found myself pretty easy all the night after.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert
Three coats of shellac are put on, followed each time by this rubbing-down process, each one giving the work a smoother feeling and a more perfect appearance.
From French Polishing and Enamelling A Practical Work of Instruction by Bitmead, Richard
To-day it means washing the face, and neck, and hands daily; to-morrow, the feet; and day after to-morrow, washing the whole body every day, and, in addition and in particular, a rubbing-down.
From What to Do? Thoughts Evoked By the Census of Moscow by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
"There's no rubbing-down for you to do, I reckon."
From The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
