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blackface

[ UK /blˈækfe‍ɪs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the makeup (usually burnt cork) used by a performer in order to imitate a Negro

How To Use blackface In A Sentence

  • Two fraternities at the university were suspended as photos of members in blackface were posted on a Web site following a Halloween party.
  • Significantly, they establish their love for each other through the rehearsals and performance of this blackface play.
  • A minstrel show became four or so men in blackface doing rough and rowdy songs on banjo, fiddle, tambourine and clacking bones, interspersed with japes, skits and dancing.
  • In October of 2003, members purchased cheviot rams at the breeding sales and crossed them onto the native blackface Ox Mountain ewes.
  • Mountain horned blackface sheep make a welcome return to Mayo's premier Show, in Swinford this year.
  • In "The Scottsboro Boys," Messrs. Kander and Ebb (who died in 2004 while writing the musical) and David Thompson, the show's librettist, have compressed this complicated sequence of events into a lengthy one-act musical that makes use of all the theatrical conventions of the old-fashioned blackface minstrel shows that were popular well into the 20th century. A Perilous Page of History to Turn
  • They were blackfaced, light, fleeced sheep.
  • Though Peder and Susie are not wearing blackface, the chronological events of Beret's gaze perform a sort of minstrel act on them.
  • It is certainly no accident that most of the creators of blackface minstrelsy spent time in the city known as “the Queen of the West.” A Renegade History of the United States
  • It seems that the performers were rehearsing in blackface.
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