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Minstrel show

noun

A troupe of performers in blackface typically giving a comic program of negro songs and jokes.

A variety show in which the performers are made up in blackface.

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"Minstrel show" Quotes from Famous Books

... Smith, "the single singing—solos, I believe they call them—in the first part will be a hard nut to crack. We can't give a minstrel show without a first part. They'd never believe we were operatic minstrels without it, even if ...

— A Pirate of Parts • Richard Neville

... instant the white countenances of the lads were changed to black—as black as the burnt-cork performers in a minstrel show. Then ...

— Tom Swift and his Airship • Victor Appleton

... fellow did go for it—five pieces of chicken! I'd rather see him repeat that performance than go to a minstrel show. He slid off his stool again, saying: 'Major, I guess I'm ...

— Tales of the Road • Charles N. Crewdson

... there about three months, when along come a man that looked like old man Trouble's only son. Of all the sorrowful faces you ever see, his was the longest and thinnest. It made any other human countenance I ever see look like a nigger-minstrel show. ...

— Mr. Scraggs • Henry Wallace Phillips