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Minstrel show
A variety show performed by minstrels, primarily white people in blackface.
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A variety show performed by minstrels, primarily white people in blackface.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Minstrel show"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| minstrelnoun | (historical) Originally, an entertainer employed to juggle, play music, sing, tell stories, etc.; a buffoon, a fool, a jester; later, a medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment. |
| minstrelsynoun | The musical and other art and craft of a minstrel. |
| minstrelshipnoun | The role or status of a minstrel. |
| mokenoun | (colloquial, dialectal) A donkey. |
| blackfacenoun | (uncountable) The practice in which a nonblack person blackens their face using theatrical makeup in order to portray a caricature of a black person. |
| blackfacingnoun | performance in blackface makeup |
| clownnoun | A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig. |
| brownfacenoun | A style of theatrical makeup in which a white person colours the face brown in order to represent somebody of another race. |
| slangnoun | Language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register. |
| endmannoun | A man at one end of a row or line. |
| graciosonoun | (theater) A clown or jester in early-modern Spanish comedy. |
| mummernoun | A person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festival. |
| motleynoun | An incongruous mixture. |
| freak shownoun | An intentionally shocking exhibition of people with unusual characteristics, and which may include people who are gigantic, dwarfish, intersex, physically deformed or who have other extraordinary diseases, conditions and talents. |
| clown carnoun | (by extension, often derogatory) A very small car. |
| freak of naturenoun | In the variety-show business, a person or an animal on exhibition as showing some strange deviation from nature, such as a bearded woman or an albino. |
| jesternoun | One who jests, jokes or teases. |
| augustenoun | (theater) A kind of clown, usually serving as an anarchic foil to the whiteface. |
| golliwognoun | A rag doll or mascot in the form of a caricature of a black minstrel. |
| showfolksnoun | showpeople |
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