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Pakeha
/ ˈpɑːkɪˌhɑː /
noun
- (in New Zealand) a person who is not of Māori ancestry, esp a White person
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Pakeha1
from Māori
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Example Sentences
I was the first pakeha who had ever arrived at a certain populous inland village.
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Here the woman burst into tears, and the pakeha felt a strange swelling of the chest, which he could in no way account for.
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Rangatira pakeha—A foreigner who is a gentleman (not a tutua, or nobody, as described above), a rich foreigner.
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Next day the bishop went further up the river to Wherinaki, where Laming, a pakeha Maori, resided.
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The survivors of the outwitted Maoris turned and fled, and the clever Pakeha was picked up and carried safely on board.
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