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Definition of whiteface in English: whitefacenounˈwʌɪtfeɪsˈ(h)wītˌfās 1mass noun White stage make-up. （舞台上的）白色面部化装 the man in whiteface going up on the stage Example sentencesExamples - This paper looks at the previously unconsidered racial stereotype of whiteface utilized by Anglo Americans in the middle of the nineteenth century to distance their working-class from those of the newly arrived immigrant Irish.
- In the context of this event, the dancers' makeup - whiteface with eyes and mouths outlined - had a disturbing edge, though as they moved they conjured more Weimar than minstrel show.
- The success of burlesque in the late 1860s spawned several all-female white troupes performing standard minstrel routines in whiteface.
- As a black man going undercover in whiteface, he investigates this secret world with laughable results.
- However, it was not only in theater that this stage Irish character of whiteface began to appear.
- Germans don whiteface for Carnival, while urban African blacks paint their faces white in rites of passage.
- The top dog, Lincoln, in costume and whiteface, impersonates Honest Abe in a sideshow, for customers playing Booth to shoot at.
- He has landed a ‘sit-down job, with benefits’ in an arcade, posing as Abraham Lincoln - whiteface and all - for patrons who pay to shoot blanks at him.
- In trademark whiteface and Buster Keaton regalia, Viglione pummeled his drums in a murderous rage, while Palmer's full, rich voice created a palpable drama.
- What would they have made of Edward D. Wood's horrifyingly inept cine-poems - or of Oscar Micheaux's melodramas, with black actors in whiteface?
2North American A Hereford cow or bull. 〈主北美〉赫里福德牛 Example sentencesExamples - I've been breeding white-faces - pure-bred Herefords.
3An Australian warbler with a white face. 澳大利亚白脸莺 Genus Aphelocephala, family Acanthizidae: three species Example sentencesExamples - No, it's just a noise that might attract some birds, particularly things like wrens and thornbills, and saffron whitefaces which we've just seen.
Definition of whiteface in US English: whitefacenounˈ(h)wītˌfās 1White stage makeup. （舞台上的）白色面部化装 the man in whiteface going up on the stage Example sentencesExamples - The success of burlesque in the late 1860s spawned several all-female white troupes performing standard minstrel routines in whiteface.
- He has landed a ‘sit-down job, with benefits’ in an arcade, posing as Abraham Lincoln - whiteface and all - for patrons who pay to shoot blanks at him.
- In the context of this event, the dancers' makeup - whiteface with eyes and mouths outlined - had a disturbing edge, though as they moved they conjured more Weimar than minstrel show.
- In trademark whiteface and Buster Keaton regalia, Viglione pummeled his drums in a murderous rage, while Palmer's full, rich voice created a palpable drama.
- What would they have made of Edward D. Wood's horrifyingly inept cine-poems - or of Oscar Micheaux's melodramas, with black actors in whiteface?
- However, it was not only in theater that this stage Irish character of whiteface began to appear.
- The top dog, Lincoln, in costume and whiteface, impersonates Honest Abe in a sideshow, for customers playing Booth to shoot at.
- This paper looks at the previously unconsidered racial stereotype of whiteface utilized by Anglo Americans in the middle of the nineteenth century to distance their working-class from those of the newly arrived immigrant Irish.
- Germans don whiteface for Carnival, while urban African blacks paint their faces white in rites of passage.
- As a black man going undercover in whiteface, he investigates this secret world with laughable results.
2North American A Hereford cow or bull. 〈主北美〉赫里福德牛 Example sentencesExamples - I've been breeding white-faces - pure-bred Herefords.
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