BLACK FACE

Traducere în limba română

black face substantiv

1. (amer. teatru fam.) actor negru;

to appear in black face a interpreta rolul unui negru (mai ales comic).

2. teatru (de comedie) cu actori negri.

3. (poligr.) caractere aldine; caractere gotice.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Presently his honest black face topped the rocks and his Herculean figure emerged upon the top of the pinnacle.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A little way down the room I saw the black face and woolly head of Bill Richmond, in a purple-and-gold footman’s livery—destined to be the predecessor of Molineaux, Sutton, and all that line of black boxers who have shown that the muscular power and insensibility to pain which distinguish the African give him a peculiar advantage in the sports of the ring.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In a state between sleeping and waking, you noticed her entrance and her actions; but feverish, almost delirious as you were, you ascribed to her a goblin appearance different from her own: the long dishevelled hair, the swelled black face, the exaggerated stature, were figments of imagination; results of nightmare: the spiteful tearing of the veil was real: and it is like her.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

At first I think that she found her share of the bargain hard to keep, and I have seen Jim come back with a black face on him, as if things were going amiss.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His honest black face, and the immense view before us, which carried us half-way back to the affluent of the Amazon, helped us to remember that we really were upon this earth in the twentieth century, and had not by some magic been conveyed to some raw planet in its earliest and wildest state.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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