blackfacen.

Brit.

/ˈblakfeɪs/, U.S.

/ˈblækˌfeɪs/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: black adj., face n.

Etymology: < black adj. + face n.

a. Originally and chiefly U.S. A dark-skinned person. Also without article, as if a name. Now rare and offensive.

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun]

AfriceOE

MoorOE

EthiopOE

blomana1225

Ethiopiana1325

blue mana1387

Moriana1387

black mana1398

blackamoor1525

black Morian1526

black boy1530

molen1538

Nigro1548

Nigrite1554

Negro1555

neger1568

nigger1577

blackfellow1598

Kaffir1607

black1614

thick-lipsa1616

Hubsheea1627

black African1633

blackface1704

sambo1704

Cuffee1713

Nigritian1738

fellow1753

Cuff1755

blacky1759

mungo1768

Quashie1774

darkie?1775

snowball1785

blue skin1788

Moriscan1794

sooterkin1821

nigc1832

tar-brush1835–40

Jim Crow1838

sooty1838

mokec1847

dinge1848

monkey1849

Siddi1849

dark1853

nigre1853

Negroid1860

kink1865

Sam1867

Rastus1882

schvartze1886

race man1896

possum1900

shine1908

jigaboo1909

smoke1913

golliwog1916

jazzbo1918

boogie1923

jig1924

melanoderm1924

spade1928

jit1931

Zulu1931

eight ball1932

Afro1942

nigra1944

spook1945

munt1948

Tom1956

boot1957

soul brother1957

nig-nog1959

member1962

pork chop1963

splib1964

blood1965

non-voter1966

moolinyan1967

Oreo1968

boogaloo1972

pongo1972

moolie1988

1704 S. K. Knight Jrnl. 7 Oct. (1825) 40 Order the master to pay 40s to black face.

1795 W. Beloe tr. Oriental Apologues in Miscellanies III. 79 You, too, Mr. Blackface..what do you mean by casting such a hawk's eye upon my wine and provision?

1859 Chambers's Jrnl. 5 Mar. 147/1 What can you expect from a blackface! Take that, and that, and that.

1888 W. Westall Nigel Fortescue xxi. 206 I have lost my braves, my mules, and my baggage; and all I have to show are two men, a pale-face and a blackface.

1899 H. B. Cushman Hist. Indians 312 Do they not even now kick and strike us as they do their black-faces?

1926 D. H. Lawrence Plumed Serpent xvii. 274 Who are these strange faces in Mexico? Palefaces, yellowfaces, blackfaces? These are no Mexicans!

b. Originally U.S. Make-up worn by a non-black person to imitate the appearance of a black person, esp. as part of a performance; the practice of imitating the appearance of a black person in this way, often in an exaggerated style. Frequently in in blackface.Blackface was a popular form of entertainment from c1830–1965 in the United States, particularly in minstrel shows (see minstrel n. 3a), but is now generally regarded as offensive.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > make-up > types of

blackface1847

crape hair1866

spirit gum1871

brownface1913

wet-white1922

glycerine tear1934

white-face1947

nose putty1950

nose paste1951

redface1954

yellowface1959

1801 Caledonian Mercury 24 Oct. We shall try in time To treat you with a little Pantomime... From durance vile our precious selves to keep, We often have recourse to th' flying leap; To a black face have sometimes ow'd escape.]

1847 Spirit of Times 12 June 179/1 Not a concert-room or a theatre..without some gentleman, with a woolly wig, black face, and a banjo..being introduced during the entertainment.

1871 Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 29 July 6/1 (advt.) Mr. Charles Backus will appear in black face on the end, being positively his last appearance.

1896 Printers' Ink 22 July 6/1 The variety and minstrel performers..are in greatest demand... Every actor must be able to play in black face, Dutch and Irish.

1913 Jrnl. Educ. (Univ. of Boston School of Educ.) 14 Aug. 139/1 Kramer and Morton, two black dots as they call themselves, present unique series of dances and songs in blackface.

1921 Everybody's Mag. Apr. 17/3 He informed him [sc. Al Jolson] that he could have five weeks in the Poli theatres if he would appear in blackface.

1937 N.Y. Herald Tribune 2 Sept. 14/4 She was a dancer and comedienne and appeared in blackface. Recently she had been in several short motion pictures.

1969 C. 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.

1991 Elle Apr. 168/2 In a nation that had long since condemned ‘blackface’ as racist, could ‘yellowface’ be tolerated?

2003 Empire May 113/1 You don't have to put on blackface to be a minstrel now.

2. Typography. Originally: black-letter type; (in later use chiefly) boldface type. Now usually attributive (see Compounds 3).

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society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [noun] > type face or font > black letter or Gothic

black letter1639

black character1659

black print1727

blackface1767

1767 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 541/2 It is printed in sixteens, in the common gothic character of the time..an English or black face approaching to a Roman.

1778 E. R. Mores Eng. Founders & Founderies 5 His [sc. Wynkyn de Worde] letter was of The square Eng. or black face, and has been the pattern for his successors in the art.

1898 Inland Printer Oct. 61/2 It requires a very artistic hand to display lightface properly in conjunction with blackface.

1912 W. W. Charters Methods of Teaching (rev. ed.) 279 The theme may be set out in black face, as is the case in this text.

1939 Jrnl. Appl. Psychol. 23 487 Letters in black face indicate the actual responses made.

1967 D. Y. Cornog & F. C. Rose Legibility Alphanumeric Characters & Other Symbols II. App. B. 406 Old English (includes, e.g., black-face, traditional Gothic, and several others).

3. Frequently with capital initial. A breed of sheep with a black face; a sheep of this breed; spec. = Scottish Blackface n. at Scottish adj. and n. Compounds 4; (also) the wool of such a sheep.

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the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [noun] > black-faced animal

blackface1802

1802 R. Thompson Statist. Surv. Meath xiii. 314 My first deviation from this large breed arose from my crossing with Mr. Daly's sheep, provincially termed the black-faces.

1879 J. Wrightson Sheep in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 321/1 The Black Faces are found on the moors of Yorkshire.

1926 M. A. Smith Tariff Wool iii. 87 The most popular breed in the Highlands of Scotland is the Blackface.

1971 Farmers Weekly 19 Mar. 43/3 Certain wool types such as Blackface..have met a better market demand than..Masham.

1998 Stornoway Gaz. 31 Dec. 9/3 There was surprise and delight in Timsgarry at the birth of two vastly unidentical twins—a cheviot and a blackface!

Compounds

General attributive.

C1. (In sense 3.)

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1793 Ann. Agric. 19 491 Mr. Bevan certainly has no opinion of the black-face breed.

1879 Newcastle Courant 12 Sept. 4/1 (advt.) The above sales comprise the best show of Black-face Sheep to be had at any market in Scotland.

1978 Dumfries & Galloway Standard 21 Oct. 21/3 (advt.) Wintering wanted for 45 Blackface Ewe Lambs from November till 1st March 1979.

2007 Spin-off Spring 74/1 Blackface wool is..important for the carpet and mattress industries because of its natural resilience.

C2. (In sense 1b.) See also blackface minstrel at minstrel n. 3a.

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1869 Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 16 Mar. 3/3 Murphy gave the audience a taste of his talent for Dutch painting (white face), and the picture was no less funny than his black face business.

1890 in Mother Shipton's Gipsy Fortune Teller (front matter) (advt.) New Blackface Minstrel Jokes.

1891 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Jan. 118 Mackin was a very clever dancer and an experienced black-face actor.

1904 in Ohio State Univ. Monthly (1909) Oct. 14 It's a black-face show, an' de High Street never had not'in' dat would touch it; not on yer life.

1985 D. Gifford Golden Age Radio 11/2 Alexander and Mose: blackface broadcasters Billy Bennett and Albert Whelan.

2007 T. Cartelli & K. Rowe New Wave Shakespeare on Screen vi. 120 Laurence Olivier's black-face performance of Othello.

C3. (In sense 2.) Cf. black-faced adj. 3.

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1834 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal III. vii. 123 The largest black-face letters are probably those in occasional use by the English printers.

1898 Therapeutic Gaz. 16 May 353/2 Large, black-face type for headings, smaller black-face type for sub-headings.

1913 W. E. Kellicott Textbk. Gen. Embryol. i. 28 The number of the volume (Band, tome, etc.) is printed in black-face Arabic numerals, followed by the year of appearance.

1974 H. Partch Genesis of Music (ed. 2) i. 30 The italics, blackface type, indentations, capitalization, and various other artifices of typographical pantomime.

2003 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 5 Apr. (Saturday Final ed.) d3 From his letter sitting on my desk, I can see his scream. It's in the form of blackface type and underlining.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	blackface
释义	blackfacen. Brit. /ˈblakfeɪs/, U.S. /ˈblækˌfeɪs/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: black adj., face n. Etymology: < black adj. + face n. 1. a. Originally and chiefly U.S. A dark-skinned person. Also without article, as if a name. Now rare and offensive. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun] AfriceOE MoorOE EthiopOE blomana1225 Ethiopiana1325 blue mana1387 Moriana1387 black mana1398 blackamoor1525 black Morian1526 black boy1530 molen1538 Nigro1548 Nigrite1554 Negro1555 neger1568 nigger1577 blackfellow1598 Kaffir1607 black1614 thick-lipsa1616 Hubsheea1627 black African1633 blackface1704 sambo1704 Cuffee1713 Nigritian1738 fellow1753 Cuff1755 blacky1759 mungo1768 Quashie1774 darkie?1775 snowball1785 blue skin1788 Moriscan1794 sooterkin1821 nigc1832 tar-brush1835–40 Jim Crow1838 sooty1838 mokec1847 dinge1848 monkey1849 Siddi1849 dark1853 nigre1853 Negroid1860 kink1865 Sam1867 Rastus1882 schvartze1886 race man1896 possum1900 shine1908 jigaboo1909 smoke1913 golliwog1916 jazzbo1918 boogie1923 jig1924 melanoderm1924 spade1928 jit1931 Zulu1931 eight ball1932 Afro1942 nigra1944 spook1945 munt1948 Tom1956 boot1957 soul brother1957 nig-nog1959 member1962 pork chop1963 splib1964 blood1965 non-voter1966 moolinyan1967 Oreo1968 boogaloo1972 pongo1972 moolie1988 1704 S. K. Knight Jrnl. 7 Oct. (1825) 40 Order the master to pay 40s to black face. 1795 W. Beloe tr. Oriental Apologues in Miscellanies III. 79 You, too, Mr. Blackface..what do you mean by casting such a hawk's eye upon my wine and provision? 1859 Chambers's Jrnl. 5 Mar. 147/1 What can you expect from a blackface! Take that, and that, and that. 1888 W. Westall Nigel Fortescue xxi. 206 I have lost my braves, my mules, and my baggage; and all I have to show are two men, a pale-face and a blackface. 1899 H. B. Cushman Hist. Indians 312 Do they not even now kick and strike us as they do their black-faces? 1926 D. H. Lawrence Plumed Serpent xvii. 274 Who are these strange faces in Mexico? Palefaces, yellowfaces, blackfaces? These are no Mexicans! b. Originally U.S. Make-up worn by a non-black person to imitate the appearance of a black person, esp. as part of a performance; the practice of imitating the appearance of a black person in this way, often in an exaggerated style. Frequently in in blackface.Blackface was a popular form of entertainment from c1830–1965 in the United States, particularly in minstrel shows (see minstrel n. 3a), but is now generally regarded as offensive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > make-up > types of blackface1847 crape hair1866 spirit gum1871 brownface1913 wet-white1922 glycerine tear1934 white-face1947 nose putty1950 nose paste1951 redface1954 yellowface1959 1801 Caledonian Mercury 24 Oct. We shall try in time To treat you with a little Pantomime... From durance vile our precious selves to keep, We often have recourse to th' flying leap; To a black face have sometimes ow'd escape.] 1847 Spirit of Times 12 June 179/1 Not a concert-room or a theatre..without some gentleman, with a woolly wig, black face, and a banjo..being introduced during the entertainment. 1871 Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 29 July 6/1 (advt.) Mr. Charles Backus will appear in black face on the end, being positively his last appearance. 1896 Printers' Ink 22 July 6/1 The variety and minstrel performers..are in greatest demand... Every actor must be able to play in black face, Dutch and Irish. 1913 Jrnl. Educ. (Univ. of Boston School of Educ.) 14 Aug. 139/1 Kramer and Morton, two black dots as they call themselves, present unique series of dances and songs in blackface. 1921 Everybody's Mag. Apr. 17/3 He informed him [sc. Al Jolson] that he could have five weeks in the Poli theatres if he would appear in blackface. 1937 N.Y. Herald Tribune 2 Sept. 14/4 She was a dancer and comedienne and appeared in blackface. Recently she had been in several short motion pictures. 1969 C. 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. 1991 Elle Apr. 168/2 In a nation that had long since condemned ‘blackface’ as racist, could ‘yellowface’ be tolerated? 2003 Empire May 113/1 You don't have to put on blackface to be a minstrel now. 2. Typography. Originally: black-letter type; (in later use chiefly) boldface type. Now usually attributive (see Compounds 3). ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [noun] > type face or font > black letter or Gothic black letter1639 black character1659 black print1727 blackface1767 1767 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 541/2 It is printed in sixteens, in the common gothic character of the time..an English or black face approaching to a Roman. 1778 E. R. Mores Eng. Founders & Founderies 5 His [sc. Wynkyn de Worde] letter was of The square Eng. or black face, and has been the pattern for his successors in the art. 1898 Inland Printer Oct. 61/2 It requires a very artistic hand to display lightface properly in conjunction with blackface. 1912 W. W. Charters Methods of Teaching (rev. ed.) 279 The theme may be set out in black face, as is the case in this text. 1939 Jrnl. Appl. Psychol. 23 487 Letters in black face indicate the actual responses made. 1967 D. Y. Cornog & F. C. Rose Legibility Alphanumeric Characters & Other Symbols II. App. B. 406 Old English (includes, e.g., black-face, traditional Gothic, and several others). 3. Frequently with capital initial. A breed of sheep with a black face; a sheep of this breed; spec. = Scottish Blackface n. at Scottish adj. and n. Compounds 4; (also) the wool of such a sheep. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > markings or colourings > [noun] > black-faced animal blackface1802 1802 R. Thompson Statist. Surv. Meath xiii. 314 My first deviation from this large breed arose from my crossing with Mr. Daly's sheep, provincially termed the black-faces. 1879 J. Wrightson Sheep in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 321/1 The Black Faces are found on the moors of Yorkshire. 1926 M. A. Smith Tariff Wool iii. 87 The most popular breed in the Highlands of Scotland is the Blackface. 1971 Farmers Weekly 19 Mar. 43/3 Certain wool types such as Blackface..have met a better market demand than..Masham. 1998 Stornoway Gaz. 31 Dec. 9/3 There was surprise and delight in Timsgarry at the birth of two vastly unidentical twins—a cheviot and a blackface! Compounds General attributive. C1. (In sense 3.) ΚΠ 1793 Ann. Agric. 19 491 Mr. Bevan certainly has no opinion of the black-face breed. 1879 Newcastle Courant 12 Sept. 4/1 (advt.) The above sales comprise the best show of Black-face Sheep to be had at any market in Scotland. 1978 Dumfries & Galloway Standard 21 Oct. 21/3 (advt.) Wintering wanted for 45 Blackface Ewe Lambs from November till 1st March 1979. 2007 Spin-off Spring 74/1 Blackface wool is..important for the carpet and mattress industries because of its natural resilience. C2. (In sense 1b.) See also blackface minstrel at minstrel n. 3a. ΚΠ 1869 Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 16 Mar. 3/3 Murphy gave the audience a taste of his talent for Dutch painting (white face), and the picture was no less funny than his black face business. 1890 in Mother Shipton's Gipsy Fortune Teller (front matter) (advt.) New Blackface Minstrel Jokes. 1891 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Jan. 118 Mackin was a very clever dancer and an experienced black-face actor. 1904 in Ohio State Univ. Monthly (1909) Oct. 14 It's a black-face show, an' de High Street never had not'in' dat would touch it; not on yer life. 1985 D. Gifford Golden Age Radio 11/2 Alexander and Mose: blackface broadcasters Billy Bennett and Albert Whelan. 2007 T. Cartelli & K. Rowe New Wave Shakespeare on Screen vi. 120 Laurence Olivier's black-face performance of Othello. C3. (In sense 2.) Cf. black-faced adj. 3. ΚΠ 1834 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal III. vii. 123 The largest black-face letters are probably those in occasional use by the English printers. 1898 Therapeutic Gaz. 16 May 353/2 Large, black-face type for headings, smaller black-face type for sub-headings. 1913 W. E. Kellicott Textbk. Gen. Embryol. i. 28 The number of the volume (Band, tome, etc.) is printed in black-face Arabic numerals, followed by the year of appearance. 1974 H. Partch Genesis of Music (ed. 2) i. 30 The italics, blackface type, indentations, capitalization, and various other artifices of typographical pantomime. 2003 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 5 Apr. (Saturday Final ed.) d3 From his letter sitting on my desk, I can see his scream. It's in the form of blackface type and underlining. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1704
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