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blackfaces

blackfaces is the plural of blackface.

Meaning of blackface

Noun

blackface (countable and uncountable, plural blackfaces)

  1. (uncountable) The practice in which a nonblack person blackens their face using theatrical makeup in order to portray a caricature of a black person.
    • Soberano hit back at Instagram comments, writing, "This is not any form of blackface." But has since backtracked.2019, Farah Andrews, “Filipina Actress Liza Soberano Slammed for Mel B 'Blackface'”, in The National News
  2. (countable) A sheep of the Scottish Blackface breed.
  3. Synonym of boldface.
    • The laboratory procedure in the most important tests and methods is printed in blackface type for convenience of reference.1917, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Journal - Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    boldface

Noun capitalized: Blackfaces

Blackfaces

  1. (plural) plural of Blackface

Questions about blackfaces

What is blackfaces the plural of?
Blackfaces is the plural of blackface.
What part of speech is blackfaces?
Blackfaces is a noun.

Words near blackfaces in the dictionary

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

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