whiteface
Americannoun
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a Hereford.
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Theater.
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a performer, as a clown, who appears in clown white.
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the white facial makeup used by such a performer.
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Etymology
Origin of whiteface
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Further, she criticized Chicago police for their alleged failure to investigate an online video showing one of the brothers “in whiteface doing a joke monologue with white makeup on,”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 18, 2022
Because, truly, you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface on Halloween, or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween.
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2018
One is using whiteface as camouflage to escape racial violence, as some runaway slaves did.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2018
His making the pencil “disappear” is a stomach-turning exercise in wickedness and his whiteface makeup, always apparently disintegrating with sweat makes him look especially malign.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2018
About midnight we almost stumbled over a herd of them, and one fine old whiteface arose at our request and let us milk her.
From Three Times and Out by Nellie L. McClung
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