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A type of full-body makeup used for darkening the skin to give the pale caucasian actor who never sees the sun the appearance of ethnicity.
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From a web forum on cooking:
When I was in a little theater group, Texas Dirt was dark-toned stage makeup. A blond-haired, blue-eyed boy played a Polynesian kid in South Pacific, and we covered the poor kid in Texas Dirt. Thanks for the memory . . .