GREASE PAINT Definition & Meaning

grease paint

noun

an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
theatrical makeup.

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Origin of grease paint¹

First recorded in 1885–90

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They said she had makeup that was like grease paint that was melting off her face.

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Fitting for a portrayal pair of Broadway superstars, the series has grease paint running through its DNA.

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The character he performed – a limping, shuffling old black field-hand in jet black grease paint made from burnt cork – would ossify as the archetypal blackface minstrel.

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It reduces identity to a pot of grease paint, to a joke.

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The origins of blackface date to 19th-century “minstrel” shows in which white performers covered their faces in black grease paint to caricature slaves.

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