minstrel show
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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
1865–70, Americanism
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| minstrel show | |
| —n | |
| a theatrical entertainment consisting of songs, dances, comic turns, etc, performed by a troupe of actors wearing black face make-up | |
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Minstrel show
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Example sentences
The main feature of the entertainment was a minstrel show.
The minstrel show craze that was the popular entertainment of the day was fueled in no small part by the banjo.
When people go to see a minstrel show they want to see a real one or none at all.
Wood's burn, who were burning corks for an amateur minstrel show.
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