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ˈblack-face
Also black face.
1. One who has a black face; a black-faced sheep or other animal.
1844W. H. Maxwell Sports & Adv. Scotl. i. (1855) 21 We..added a black-face to our sea-stock. 1879Wrightson Sheep in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 321/1 The Black Faces are found on the moors of Yorkshire.
2. † (a) A Negro. Obs. U.S. (b) The exaggerated make-up worn by an actor playing a Negro role. Also attrib. orig. U.S.
(a)1704S. Knight Jrnl. (1825) 40 Order the master to pay 40s to black face. 1899H. B. Cushman Hist. Choctaw Indians 312 Do they not even now kick and strike us as they do their black-faces?
(b)1869F. Dumont Benedict's Congress Songster 9 Lew made his first bow before the public at the Metropolitan Theatre in a black face. 1895N.Y. Dramatic News 16 Nov. 7/4 An old-time black-face actor died in Bellevue hospital. 1969C. Himes Blind Man with Pistol xii. 129 Two big rugged black men clad in belted leather coats, looking for all the world like Nazi SS troopers in blackface. |