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Hereford vs Whiteface - What's the difference?

hereford | whiteface |

As nouns the difference between hereford and whiteface

is that hereford is hereford (breed of cattle) while whiteface is (uncountable) makeup that makes the face appear white.

hereford

English

(wikipedia Hereford)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A city in Herefordshire, England
  • A breed of cattle used for high-quality beef, see

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cow of the Hereford breed.

    • whiteface

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Makeup that makes the face appear white.
    • Whiteface is sometimes worn by clowns and mimes, or in the Gothic subculture.
  • (countable) Any bird of the genus Aphelocephala .
  • A Hereford cow.
  • (countable, slang) A person of European descent.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 10, author=Janet Maslin, title=Cops Wife Spiraling Out of Control in Chicago, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Craig has gotten himself entree into a dangerous Chinatown card game, where he is playing the role of the malleable whiteface , the unlucky Irishman known as Mickey in order to infiltrate the drug-dealing operations of Asian gang members. }}

    Synonyms

    * (European) paleface

    Usage notes

    The "white person" sense is rarely used directly; instead, it is found chiefly in reported or fictional speech, where it is ascribed to non-white characters, often as a way of establishing them as primitives.