(The name of) a stock character in minstrel songs and performances portraying a black man represented as a self-important buffoon who is excessively…
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| 释义 | society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > black minstrel > performing specific part (6) zip coon1833 (The name of) a stock character in minstrel songs and performances portraying a black man represented as a self-important buffoon who is excessively… Jim Crow1835 The eponymous black character in the early 19th-cent. plantation song ‘Jim Crow’; T. D. Rice or any other performer of the Jim Crow act; in… centreman1870 Chiefly U.S. With reference to blackface minstrels: = middleman, n. 4 (cf. end-man, n. 1, corner-man, n. 1). Now historical. middleman1870 U.S. A man in the middle of a line of blackface minstrels who leads the dialogue between songs; = interlocutor, n.1 3. Now chiefly historical. interlocutor1880 The middleman of a blackface minstrel troupe, who questions the end-men and acts as compère. tambo1884 The tambourine-player in a black minstrel troupe. Also, the tambourine played by such a musician. |
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