minstrel show
–noun
| a popular stage entertainment featuring comic dialogue, song, and dance in highly conventionalized patterns, performed by a troupe of actors, traditionally comprising two end men and a chorus in blackface and an interlocutor: developed in the U.S. in the early and mid-19th century. |
[Origin: 1865–70, Americanism
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Minstrel show
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| minstrel show
n. A comic variety show of the 19th and early 20th centuries, usually featuring white actors in blackface. |
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| 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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