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Meaning of brownface | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/ˈbɹaʊnˌfeɪs/

Definitions

A style of theatrical makeup in which a white person colours the face brown in order to represent somebody of another race.

uncountable

Examples

“The problem isn’t so much Lancaster’s unconvincing brownface makeup — though it looks as if it had been applied by the same heavy laborers who blacktopped Laurence Olivier for “Othello” — as it is the extremely un-Leonardian softness of his presence.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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