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单词 whiteface
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Definition of whiteface in English:

whiteface

nounˈwʌɪtfeɪsˈ(h)wītˌfās
  • 1mass noun White stage make-up.

    the man in whiteface going up on the stage
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This paper looks at the previously unconsidered racial stereotype of whiteface utilized by Anglo Americans in the middle of the nineteenth century to distance their working-class from those of the newly arrived immigrant Irish.
    • In the context of this event, the dancers' makeup - whiteface with eyes and mouths outlined - had a disturbing edge, though as they moved they conjured more Weimar than minstrel show.
    • The success of burlesque in the late 1860s spawned several all-female white troupes performing standard minstrel routines in whiteface.
    • As a black man going undercover in whiteface, he investigates this secret world with laughable results.
    • However, it was not only in theater that this stage Irish character of whiteface began to appear.
    • Germans don whiteface for Carnival, while urban African blacks paint their faces white in rites of passage.
    • The top dog, Lincoln, in costume and whiteface, impersonates Honest Abe in a sideshow, for customers playing Booth to shoot at.
    • He has landed a ‘sit-down job, with benefits’ in an arcade, posing as Abraham Lincoln - whiteface and all - for patrons who pay to shoot blanks at him.
    • In trademark whiteface and Buster Keaton regalia, Viglione pummeled his drums in a murderous rage, while Palmer's full, rich voice created a palpable drama.
    • What would they have made of Edward D. Wood's horrifyingly inept cine-poems - or of Oscar Micheaux's melodramas, with black actors in whiteface?
    Synonyms
    cosmetics, greasepaint
  • 2North American A Hereford cow or bull.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I've been breeding white-faces - pure-bred Herefords.
  • 3An Australian warbler with a white face.

    Genus Aphelocephala, family Acanthizidae: three species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • No, it's just a noise that might attract some birds, particularly things like wrens and thornbills, and saffron whitefaces which we've just seen.
 
 

Definition of whiteface in US English:

whiteface

nounˈ(h)wītˌfās
  • 1White stage makeup.

    the man in whiteface going up on the stage
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The success of burlesque in the late 1860s spawned several all-female white troupes performing standard minstrel routines in whiteface.
    • He has landed a ‘sit-down job, with benefits’ in an arcade, posing as Abraham Lincoln - whiteface and all - for patrons who pay to shoot blanks at him.
    • In the context of this event, the dancers' makeup - whiteface with eyes and mouths outlined - had a disturbing edge, though as they moved they conjured more Weimar than minstrel show.
    • In trademark whiteface and Buster Keaton regalia, Viglione pummeled his drums in a murderous rage, while Palmer's full, rich voice created a palpable drama.
    • What would they have made of Edward D. Wood's horrifyingly inept cine-poems - or of Oscar Micheaux's melodramas, with black actors in whiteface?
    • However, it was not only in theater that this stage Irish character of whiteface began to appear.
    • The top dog, Lincoln, in costume and whiteface, impersonates Honest Abe in a sideshow, for customers playing Booth to shoot at.
    • This paper looks at the previously unconsidered racial stereotype of whiteface utilized by Anglo Americans in the middle of the nineteenth century to distance their working-class from those of the newly arrived immigrant Irish.
    • Germans don whiteface for Carnival, while urban African blacks paint their faces white in rites of passage.
    • As a black man going undercover in whiteface, he investigates this secret world with laughable results.
    Synonyms
    cosmetics, greasepaint
  • 2North American A Hereford cow or bull.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I've been breeding white-faces - pure-bred Herefords.
 
 
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