minstrel show

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a comic variety show presented by a company of performers in blackface

Origin: after the Christy Minstrels, the first such troupe, organized (c. 1842) by Edwin P. Christy at Buffalo

See minstrel show in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A comic variety show of the 19th and early 20th centuries, usually featuring white actors in blackface.

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