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blackfaced

blackfaced adjective: having a black face.

Adjective

blackfaced (not comparable)

  1. Having a black face.
    • “Señor Ponte, bet on Bandito,” Manny yelled, lifting his blackfaced bird as it expanded and ruffled its feathers2002, Tina Matlock, Guava and Cheese, page 33
  2. Wearing blackface theater makeup.
    • Among the most popular forms of theatrical entertainment in the nineteenth-century American theatre were the blackfaced minstrel troupes.1996, Barry Witham, Theatre in the United States - A Documentary History, page 160

Antonyms of blackfaced

Origin of blackfaced

from black + faced

Questions about blackfaced

What does blackfaced mean?
Blackfaced means having a black face.
What part of speech is blackfaced?
Blackfaced is an adjective.

Words near blackfaced in the dictionary

  1. blackeye
  2. blackeyed
  3. blackeyes
  4. blackeys
  5. blackface
  6. blackfaced
  7. blackfaces
  8. blackfacing
  9. Blackfalds
  10. Blackfeet
  11. blackfella

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