1 Inlaid into the front of the black-faced headstock is the familiar Gibson logo, and what looks like a stylised seahorse.

2 Others showed beaming brides and grooms, looking, thanks to the copying process, like black-faced riverboat minstrels.

3 The hall was invaded by legions of snotty-nosed, tousle-haired,(www.Sentencedict.com) black-faced imps.

4 Her blackface glistened in the glare of the stage lights.

5 Men in blackface threw down a refresher before returning to their roles.

6 Emmett was a member of a blackface troupe known as the Bryant's Minstrels, but he was indignant when he found out that his song had become an unofficial anthem of the Confederacy.

7 Eventually the Blackface ewe will give birth to a new genetically identical Finn Dorset ewe(3).

8 The traditional agricultural land use in the Pentland Hills is sheep farming, mainly of pure bred Blackface flocks.

9 While this is occurring an unfertilized egg cell is taken from a Blackface ewe with its DNA filled nucleus taken out leaving a nucleus free egg cell that will later produce an embryo (3).

10 The racist aspects of the custom have been downplayed in recent decades, and the tale of Black Peter now describes him as a chimney sweep instead of a slave, which explains the blackface.

11 When Barack was starting out as a politician, his rivals dismissed him as inauthentically African-American or even "the white man in blackface".

12 One of a troupe of entertainers made up in blackface and presenting a comic variety show.