blackfaced en · ADJ
Etymology
from black + faced
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having a black face.
“Señor Ponte, bet on Bandito,” Manny yelled, lifting his blackfaced bird as it expanded and ruffled its feathers
2002, Tina Matlock, Guava and Cheese, page 33:
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(not-comparable) Wearing blackface theater makeup.
Among the most popular forms of theatrical entertainment in the nineteenth-century American theatre were the blackfaced minstrel troupes.
1996, Barry Witham, Theatre in the United States - A Documentary History, page 160: