Definitions
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- noun A style of
theatrical makeup in which a white person colours the facebrown in order to represent somebody of anotherrace .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The principal Indian roles are played by white actors in brownface, including a scowling Jeff Chandler as Cochise.
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The principal Indian roles are played by white actors in brownface, including a scowling Jeff Chandler as Cochise.
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There, he falls in love with a half-Tahitian beauty (Williams, in "brownface") and decides to adopt the "pagan" lifestyle of Tahiti.
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Playing the lead "brownface" role, she stole the show with a new song, a lurching mid-tempo ballad by songwriters Jean Lennox and Harry O. Sutton.
Expecting Rain 2009
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And he suspects the show misfired with its cartoonish tribe of Amazon Indians and a Middle Eastern character played by a white actor in brownface.
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And he suspects the show misfired with its cartoonish tribe of Amazon Indians and a Middle Eastern character played by a white actor in brownface.
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Anton Yelchin is cool with the whole ring/super powers thing, but what he really wants is to wear brownface and yell “Heart!”
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I mean, the disturbing number of people who seem to think putting these kids in brownface or yellowface is okay, is proof enough that there's a huge problem here.
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We talk about that in terms of "West Side Story," where everybody's identified how Natalie Wood was in brownface playing a Puerto Rican.
CNN.com 2009
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But the whole film is stuffed full of delights: Heston in brownface exclaiming about an explosion on the border,
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