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Minstrel show   /mˈɪnstrəl ʃoʊ/   Listen
Minstrel show

noun
1.
A troupe of performers in blackface typically giving a comic program of negro songs and jokes.
2.
A variety show in which the performers are made up in blackface.





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"Minstrel show" Quotes from Famous Books



... Smith, "the single singing—solos, I believe they call them—in the first part will be a hard nut to crack. We can't give a minstrel show without a first part. They'd never believe we were operatic minstrels without it, even if ...
— A Pirate of Parts • Richard Neville
... instant the white countenances of the lads were changed to black—as black as the burnt-cork performers in a minstrel show. Then ...
— Tom Swift and his Airship • Victor Appleton


Words linked to "Minstrel show" :   minstrel, variety show, troupe, interlocutor, company, corner man, middleman, variety, end man


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