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minstrel show
 

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Noun minstrel show has 1 sense
  1. minstrel show - a troupe of performers in blackface typically giving a comic program of negro songs and jokes
    --1 is a kind of     company, troupe
    --1 has members:
     end man, corner man; interlocutor, middleman; minstrel

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Minstrel Show

Part of Speech: Noun

Sense: A form of entertainment popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries, characterized by white performers wearing blackface makeup and performing exaggerated stereotypes of African Americans.

Usage:

  1. The minstrel show was a prominent form of entertainment during the 1800s.
  2. Many scholars consider the minstrel show to be racially offensive.

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