paleface
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of paleface
1815–25; pale 1 + face, expression attributed to North American Indians
Example Sentences
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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
He’ll not find any one to oppose his will; which, as I take it, is to make this little paleface his wife, and our queen.
From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by Tilney, F.C.
If Aguara be untrue to me, it is no fault of the paleface.
From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by Tilney, F.C.
He often carried her away to his wigwam and with great delight explained to visiting Indians how his name was woven into that of the first little paleface born among his people.
From Algonquin Indian Tales by Young, Egerton Ryerson
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