noun. Makeup for a conventionalized comic travesty of black people, especially in a minstrel show.

noun. An actor wearing such makeup in a minstrel show.

noun. a style of theatrical makeup in which a white person blackens their face in order to portray a negro

noun. the makeup (usually burnt cork) used by a performer in order to imitate a Negro

"Putting a nonblack actor in blackface is so easy to avoid, that producers simply cannot avoid the question, "why didn't you just get a black actor to do it?""

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