blackface
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See also: Blackface
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[edit]blackface (countable and uncountable, plural blackfaces)
- (uncountable) The practice in which a non-black person blackens their face using theatrical makeup in order to portray a caricature of a black person.
- Coordinate terms: (race and ethnicity) brownface, redface, whiteface, yellowface; (sex, gender, and sexual orientation) gayface, transface; (voice and accent) blackvoice, vocal blackface
- 2019, Farah Andrews, “Filipina Actress Liza Soberano Slammed for Mel B 'Blackface'”, in The National News:
- Soberano hit back at Instagram comments, writing, "This is not any form of blackface." But has since backtracked.
- (countable) A sheep of the Scottish Blackface breed.
- (uncountable, countable, typography) Synonym of boldface.