NOUN
- a clown whose face is covered with white make-up
- hardy English breed of cattle raised extensively in United States
How To Use whiteface In A Sentence
- The success of burlesque in the late 1860s spawned several all-female white troupes performing standard minstrel routines in whiteface.
- This was interesting because it meant that the people in whiteface on the Library Mall must be members of Terminal Theater, the legendary factoidal group whose name, even, was subject to conjecture, or was an aspect, perhaps, of the group’s borderline existence. Underworld
- In the context of this event, the dancers' makeup - whiteface with eyes and mouths outlined - had a disturbing edge, though as they moved they conjured more Weimar than minstrel show.
- Lead vocalist Martyn Jacques, a classically-trained counter-tenor, sings many of the songs in falsetto, wearing a bowler and whiteface while playing the accordion, piano, and banjolele. Archive 2008-11-01
- Whiteface and blackface were not only associated in theatricality; in a more profound sense, they both replicated similar stereotypes.
- The success of burlesque in the late 1860s spawned several all-female white troupes performing standard minstrel routines in whiteface.
- Maybe removing the whiteface platinum pearl hen from her yellow-white albino mate (also called pied) caused the disruption. Amorous cockatiels and marriage equality
- This paper looks at the previously unconsidered racial stereotype of whiteface utilized by Anglo Americans in the middle of the nineteenth century to distance their working-class from those of the newly arrived immigrant Irish.
- Germans don whiteface for Carnival, while urban African blacks paint their faces white in rites of passage.
- However, it was not only in theater that this stage Irish character of whiteface began to appear.
