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Definition of Blackface
1. Noun. The makeup (usually burnt cork) used by a performer in order to imitate a Negro.
Definition of Blackface
1. Noun. a style of theatrical makeup in which a white person blackens the face in order to represent a negro ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blackface
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blackface
Literary usage of Blackface
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hood's Own: Or, Laughter from Year to Year: Being Former Runnings of His by Thomas Hood (1855)
"Accordingly one Friday, at the dead of the night, they set forth, having for
leader a fellow that was named blackface, by reason of a vizard which he wore ..."
2. Annual Conference Proceedings of the American Library Association by American Library Association. Conference, American Library Association (1894)
"TO THE FAINT-HEARTS WHO TURNED BACK FROM WHITEFACE : Here on top of blackface
Mountain, Which for hours we have been mounting, Our thoughts are fondly with ..."
3. Types and Breeds of Farm Animals by Charles Sumner Plumb (1906)
"We ought to begin breeding Kent or Romney Marsh sheep. We could use Scottish
blackface sheep on our poor mountainsides to great advantage. ..."
4. Hood's Own: Or, Laughter from Year to Year: Being Former Runnings of His by Thomas Hood (1855)
"Accordingly one Friday, at the dead of the night, they set forth, having for
leader a fellow that was named blackface, by reason of a vizard which he wore ..."
5. Annual Conference Proceedings of the American Library Association by American Library Association. Conference, American Library Association (1894)
"TO THE FAINT-HEARTS WHO TURNED BACK FROM WHITEFACE : Here on top of blackface
Mountain, Which for hours we have been mounting, Our thoughts are fondly with ..."
6. Types and Breeds of Farm Animals by Charles Sumner Plumb (1906)
"We ought to begin breeding Kent or Romney Marsh sheep. We could use Scottish
blackface sheep on our poor mountainsides to great advantage. ..."
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