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Blackface Moderate

Blackface has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

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

2

A style of makeup in which a non-black person blackens their face, usually in order to portray a black person.

3

Alternative letter-case form of blackface (form of racist vaudeville entertainment)

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
makeup
Rhyming Words
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