paleface

American  

[payl-fays] / ˈpeɪlˌfeɪs /

noun

1. Slang. a white person, as distinguished from a North American Indian.

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paleface British  

/ ˈpeɪlˌfeɪs /

noun

1. a derogatory term for a White person, said to have been used by North American Indians

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Etymology

Origin of paleface

1815–25; pale ¹ + face, expression attributed to North American Indians

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Example Sentences

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paleface

Many of the writers Winters most admired wound up in Rahv’s paleface pantheon—Hawthorne, Melville, Emily Dickinson, Henry James.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 11, 2019

But centuries before paleface cartographers gave the peak that name, Alaskan Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos called it by another: Denali, or "the Great One" in the Athabascan Indian dialect.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then he was an Indian—a Delaware—the son of the Indian woman—he was not a paleface.

From The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by John Esten Cooke

She would not tell him that she had still doubted her father, and that she was not sure what instructions he had given the men ordered to guide the paleface.

From The Princess Pocahontas by George Wharton Edwards

“The sun has no brightness like the eyes of the paleface princess,” he said, his proud face serious, and his eyes steady and flashing.

From The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies by Ridgwell Cullum

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