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blackfaced

adj

Etymology

from black + faced

  1. derived from faciēs
  2. derived from facia
  3. derived from face
  4. inherited from face
  5. suffixed as faced — “face + ed”
  6. compounded as blackfaced — “black + faced”

Definitions

  1. Having a black face.

    • “Señor Ponte, bet on Bandito,” Manny yelled, lifting his blackfaced bird as it expanded and ruffled its feathers

  2. Wearing blackface theater makeup.

    • Among the most popular forms of theatrical entertainment in the nineteenth-century American theatre were the blackfaced minstrel troupes.

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