blackfaced

adj — 2 senses

blackfaced

adj

Etymology from black + faced

1

Having a black face.

  • “Señor Ponte, bet on Bandito,” Manny yelled, lifting his blackfaced bird as it expanded and ruffled its feathers2002, Tina Matlock, Guava and Cheese, page 33:
2

Wearing 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:
Antonyms
whitefaced

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