blackface - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • don: On Boxing day and New Year's Day, an old tradition is to don blackface and parade through the town singing minstrel songs.

Modifies a noun

  • sheep: He lives on and helps work his wife's ancestral croft in Strathspey where they rear suckler cows and blackface sheep.
  • minstrelsy: Conference presentations include pieces on Jack Kerouac and blackface minstrelsy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Theodor Adorno.
  • ewe: The main bedrock business is the hill farm which runs some 2100 blackface ewes and 80 suckler cows.
  • minstrel: The concluding portion of a blackface minstrel entertainment, containing dialog and sketches.

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