e/Madame Rentz's Female Minstrels

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has gloss	eng: Madame Rentzs Female Minstrels was a blackface minstrel troupe composed completely of women. M. B. Leavitt founded the company in 1870. Unlike mainstream minstrelsy at the time, Leavitts cast was entirely made up of women, whose primary role was not to perform comedy routines or song and dance numbers but to showcase their scantily clad bodies and tights. The women still performed the a basic minstrel show, but they added new pieces that titillated the audience. John E. Henshaw, who began his career as a stage hand with Madame Rentz's Female Minstrels, recalled,
lexicalization	eng: Madame Rentz's Female Minstrels
instance of	c/Blackface minstrel troupes