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blacked-up
adjective
(also blacked up)uk /ˌblæktˈʌp/ us /ˌblæktˈʌp/
wearing dark make-up over pale skin in order to look like a black person or to hide your face: 化妆扮黑人的
They used blacked-up white actors instead of African Americans.他们让白人化妆扮演黑人，而不是采用非裔美国演员。
Their faces were blacked up with burnt cork; they were armed with clubs, knives, and pistols.他们的脸用软木炭染黑；拿着棍子、刀子和手枪作武器。
This was a time when blacked-up singers were standard Saturday-night entertainment in Britain.
The minstrel show, originating in the 1830s, featured blacked-up white performers doing a comic, exaggerated imitation of black voices.
Photographers actually spent 24 hours blacked-up and in camouflage gear, crawling through the bushes outside the palace.
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