Blackface Definition

blăkfās
noun
Makeup for a conventionalized comic travesty of black people, especially in a minstrel show.
American Heritage
Black makeup used by a performer, as in a minstrel show.
Webster's New World
An actor wearing such makeup in a minstrel show.
American Heritage
adjective
Having a black or blackened face.
Webster's New World

Blackface Sentence Examples

  • Haggis Blackface Haggis is the traditional Scottish beastie we know and love.

  • On Boxing day and New Year's Day, an old tradition is to don blackface and parade through the town singing minstrel songs.

  • Conference presentations include pieces on Jack Kerouac and blackface minstrelsy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Theodor Adorno.

  • Ingredients 1 leg joint of Blackface Mutton, cover in seasoned flour and then sear in a hot pan.

  • In the film, Glover plays one of the performers in a satiric blackface minstrel show and even enjoys an on-screen relationship with Jada Pinkett Smith.

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