blackface
🇺🇸
/ˈblækfeɪs/
🇬🇧
/ˈblækfeɪs/
noun
R
A makeup used by white actors in the past to darken their skin, which is now seen as very offensive.
Performing in blackface is no longer acceptable in modern society.
R
A sheep with a black face.
The farmer had a flock of blackface sheep in his pasture.
translation
A makeup used by white actors in the past to darken their skin, which is now seen as very offensive.; A sheep with a black face.
Word Forms
Plural
blackfaces