Meaning Of The Word Minstrel show
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What's The Definition Of Minstrel show?
minstrel show in American English
a comic variety show presented by a company of performers in blackface noun: a popular stage entertainment featuring comic dialogue, song, and dance in highly conventionalized patterns, performed by a troupe of actors, traditionally comprising two end men and a chorus in blackface and an interlocutor: developed in the U.S. in the minstrel show in British English noun: a former theatrical entertainment consisting of songs, dances, comic turns, etc, typically performed by a troupe of White actors wearing black face make-up |
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