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Definition of blackface in English: blackfacenoun ˈblakfeɪsˈblakfās 1A sheep of a breed with a black face. Example sentencesExamples - Mountain horned blackface sheep make a welcome return to Mayo's premier Show, in Swinford this year.
- Meat from Scotland's famous blackface sheep, one of the country's oldest breeds, can be ordered online.
- Foot-and-mouth won't just destroy my livelihood - it would kill off a whole line of blackface sheep that I can trace back over the years.
- In October of 2003, members purchased cheviot rams at the breeding sales and crossed them onto the native blackface Ox Mountain ewes.
- The sale attracts buyers from all over Ireland because the Mourne blackface has all the qualities required for profitable sheep farming in the difficult years ahead.
2mass noun Make-up used by a non-black performer playing a black role. Example sentencesExamples - Alexander believes that Jews did blackface because this type of performance enabled Jews to identify with the sense of exile and loss of home faced by African Americans.
- Soon he branches out on his own and progresses quickly from chorus singer to a featured act while appearing in blackface with one of the country's popular minstrel shows.
- A minstrel show became four or so men in blackface doing rough and rowdy songs on banjo, fiddle, tambourine and clacking bones, interspersed with japes, skits and dancing.
- It is not surprising then that Eddie Cantor, the aging, former vaudevillian and radio headliner-turned-television star, performed his most popular musical numbers in blackface.
- Two fraternities at the university were suspended as photos of members in blackface were posted on a Web site following a Halloween party.
- Black people found a certain joy in the idea of their humanity finally making it on the screen, even though actor Al Jolson was shown in blackface.
- Whiteface and blackface were not only associated in theatricality; in a more profound sense, they both replicated similar stereotypes.
- Soon all blackface performers were known as minstrels.
- How had a white dancer in blackface captured a rowdy crowd of laborers?
- Though Peder and Susie are not wearing blackface, the chronological events of Beret's gaze perform a sort of minstrel act on them.
- Done up in blackface, Olivier gives a very intelligent reading of the part, providing real conviction to lines that could easily have elicited laughter.
- Although the Jim Crow character as a feature of minstrel shows became popular in the generation before the Civil War, early photographic images of people in blackface are quite rare.
- When fat people are portrayed on film, they're usually played by thin actors in fat suits, a phenomena that's been compared to a modern version of the blackface minstrel show.
- The white practice of copying African American mannerisms became so widespread that actors performing in blackface eventually squeezed black theater out of existence.
- Significantly, they establish their love for each other through the rehearsals and performance of this blackface play.
- Al Jolson, the first true multimedia star, got his start as a blackface minstrel.
- He makes an excellent case for the value, integrity, and racial equanimity of blackface minstrel performance.
- Most of the rest of the songs, original and traditional, are performed in blackface to illustrate the progress of his minstrel career.
- The high concept involves two young black men donning blackface minstrel makeup, reciting various bits of anachronistic shtick, parodying cruel racial stereotypes of yesteryear.
- It seems that the performers were rehearsing in blackface.
Definition of blackface in US English: blackfacenounˈblakfās 1The makeup used by a nonblack performer playing a black role. as modifier the blackface components of the minstrel era Example sentencesExamples - How had a white dancer in blackface captured a rowdy crowd of laborers?
- Done up in blackface, Olivier gives a very intelligent reading of the part, providing real conviction to lines that could easily have elicited laughter.
- Two fraternities at the university were suspended as photos of members in blackface were posted on a Web site following a Halloween party.
- He makes an excellent case for the value, integrity, and racial equanimity of blackface minstrel performance.
- Whiteface and blackface were not only associated in theatricality; in a more profound sense, they both replicated similar stereotypes.
- When fat people are portrayed on film, they're usually played by thin actors in fat suits, a phenomena that's been compared to a modern version of the blackface minstrel show.
- It is not surprising then that Eddie Cantor, the aging, former vaudevillian and radio headliner-turned-television star, performed his most popular musical numbers in blackface.
- A minstrel show became four or so men in blackface doing rough and rowdy songs on banjo, fiddle, tambourine and clacking bones, interspersed with japes, skits and dancing.
- Alexander believes that Jews did blackface because this type of performance enabled Jews to identify with the sense of exile and loss of home faced by African Americans.
- Al Jolson, the first true multimedia star, got his start as a blackface minstrel.
- It seems that the performers were rehearsing in blackface.
- Soon he branches out on his own and progresses quickly from chorus singer to a featured act while appearing in blackface with one of the country's popular minstrel shows.
- Soon all blackface performers were known as minstrels.
- Though Peder and Susie are not wearing blackface, the chronological events of Beret's gaze perform a sort of minstrel act on them.
- Significantly, they establish their love for each other through the rehearsals and performance of this blackface play.
- The white practice of copying African American mannerisms became so widespread that actors performing in blackface eventually squeezed black theater out of existence.
- Most of the rest of the songs, original and traditional, are performed in blackface to illustrate the progress of his minstrel career.
- The high concept involves two young black men donning blackface minstrel makeup, reciting various bits of anachronistic shtick, parodying cruel racial stereotypes of yesteryear.
- Although the Jim Crow character as a feature of minstrel shows became popular in the generation before the Civil War, early photographic images of people in blackface are quite rare.
- Black people found a certain joy in the idea of their humanity finally making it on the screen, even though actor Al Jolson was shown in blackface.
2A sheep of a breed with a black face. Example sentencesExamples - In October of 2003, members purchased cheviot rams at the breeding sales and crossed them onto the native blackface Ox Mountain ewes.
- Meat from Scotland's famous blackface sheep, one of the country's oldest breeds, can be ordered online.
- Mountain horned blackface sheep make a welcome return to Mayo's premier Show, in Swinford this year.
- The sale attracts buyers from all over Ireland because the Mourne blackface has all the qualities required for profitable sheep farming in the difficult years ahead.
- Foot-and-mouth won't just destroy my livelihood - it would kill off a whole line of blackface sheep that I can trace back over the years.
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