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whiteface

n. 1 (context uncountable English) makeup that makes the face appear white. 2 (context countable English) Any bird of the genus ''Aphelocephala''. 3 A Hereford cow. 4 (context countable slang English) A person of European descent. (qualifier: See usage notes.)

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whiteface
  1. n. hardy English breed of dairy cattle raised extensively in United States [syn: Hereford]

  2. a clown whose face is covered with white make-up

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Whiteface, TX -- U.S. town in Texas
Population (2000): 465
Housing Units (2000): 207
Land area (2000): 0.581382 sq. miles (1.505772 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.581382 sq. miles (1.505772 sq. km)
FIPS code: 78328
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 33.600875 N, 102.615414 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 79379
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Whiteface (comics)

Whiteface is a fictional comic book supervillain in Marvel Comics. Created by Daniel Way and Steve Dillon, he was first introduced in Supreme Power: Nighthawk. He is the first supervillain to appear in the Supreme Power universe that does not have any superhuman abilities. Loosely based on DC Comics's the Joker, he is the first major antagonist to face Nighthawk (a character based on DC's Batman).

Whiteface (band)

Whiteface was an American, Atlanta-based pop-rock-funk band formed in the late 1970s. Its members were technically proficient and each was a lead vocalist, giving the band an incredible vocal harmony sound. Their music style varied wildly from funk & R&B to pop & rock.

Whiteface

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Whiteface (performance)
This article is about the race-related whiteface performance. For the whiteface clown, see Clown#Whiteface.

Whiteface is a form of performance in which a person wears theatrical makeup in order to make themselves look like a white person, usually for comic purposes. The term is a reversal of the more common form of performance known as blackface, in which performers use makeup in order to make themselves look like a black person, for comic purposes. Whiteface performance originated in the 19th century, and today occasionally appears in cinema.

Usage examples of "whiteface".

The day after their meeting she had found Aunt Alphonsine all a dry frightened gibber, holding a whitefaced conference with Grandmother in the parlour, and they had asked her if she had known that Peacey had left Torque Hall that morning.

The meacr was smaller than, say, a whiteface or a Charolais, and he bred like an old Earth rabbit, having twins twice a year, cute little critters with wings which, after a few days, hardened up like a bat's wing and grew to massive length to carry the chunky little body of the wingling up into the auto sport and play and look for insects and small rodents, things which made up his diet until the change, when the wings shrank into two swollen appendages used for flicking bisects and which made the finest, tastiest soup this side of galactic core.

Half of the whites were in blackface, with wide white-greasepainted lips, while two blacks were in whiteface.

Cassie, in a play within a play, took the part of a white southern college belle in blackface, trying to sort out her relationship with a black radical in whiteface.

I had gone back and made them all into vampires, and there we were, the House de Lioncourt, whitefaced beauties even to the bloodsucking baby that lay in the cradle and the mother who bent to give it the wriggling longtailed gray rat upon which it was to feed.

I rose up full before the boat, because I had never seen whitefaces alive, though I knew them well—otherwise.

The change was a long stride in the direction of improvement, but, later on, another change was made to Herefords, and during recent years only whitefaces have been bred upon the ranch.