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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



... there about three months, when along come a man that looked like old man Trouble's only son. Of all the sorrowful faces you ever see, his was the longest and thinnest. It made any other human countenance I ever see look like a nigger-minstrel show. ...
— Mr. Scraggs • Henry Wallace Phillips


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


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