Meanings
- not comparableWearing blackface theater makeup.
Among the most popular forms of theatrical entertainment in the nineteenth-century American theatre were the blackfaced minstrel troupes.
1996, Barry Witham, Theatre in the United States - A Documentary History, page 160
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