Crossword-Solution: BLACKFACE
We have 9 clues for the answer “BLACKFACE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Guise of American minstrels. | 1 answer |
| MAKE-up for Negro role | 1 answer |
| NEGRO role | 1 answer |
| SCOTTISH sheep breed | 1 answer |
| performer made up to imitate a Black person | 1 answer |
| the makeup used by a performer in order to imitate a Negro | 1 answer |
| She-ep? | 29 answers |
| SHEEP breed | 41 answers |
| Negro | 47 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BLACKFACE (5)
The stock sold from the hills are for the most part Cheviots and Blackfaces; from the low grounds half-breds, being a cross between Leicester and Cheviot and crosses between the Cheviot and Blackface.
Suppose he did! How would you like to be hit in the midriff by an apothegm of Cicero, or be hamstrung by the subjunctive pluperfect of an irregular French verb?" Jerry was laughing immoderately, though I admit such blackface pleasantry appealed little to my sense of humor.
INDEX (A number in blackface type refers to a page on which appears a literary selection under the title, by the author, or from the book preceding the number.
Blackface make-up is done most successfully with charred cork dust mixed with water to produce a heavy paste.
Accordingly, one Friday, at the dead of the night, they set forth, having for leader a fellow that was named Blackface, by reason of a vizard which he wore always on such errands, diverting themselves by the way with laying out each man his share of the booty in the manner that pleased him best, wine and the women of Lewkener’s Lane coming in you may be sure for the main burthen of the song.
Quotes with BLACKFACE (3)
The people we find truly anathema are the ones who reduce the past to caricature and distortit to fit their own bigoted stereotypes. We’ve gone to events that claimed to be historic fashionshows but turned out to be gaudy polyester parades with no shadow of reality behind them. Aswe heard our ancestors mocked and bigoted stereotypes presented as facts, we felt like we hadgone to an event advertised as an NAACP convention only to discover it was actually a minstrelshow featuri…
... out of the counterfeiting of the black American's identity [in blackface minstrelsy] there arises a profound doubt in the white man's mind as to the authenticity of his own image of himself. He, after all, went into the business when he refused the king's shilling and revolted. He had put on a mask of his own, as it were... For the ex-colonials, the declaration of an American identity meant the assumption of a mask, and it imposed not only the discipline of national self-…
Said the pot to die kettle "Get away blackface."
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1953).