paleface

American  

[peyl-feys] / 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

Example Sentences

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

It is a relief to him, when Nacena, pointing towards the dark object bound to the scaffold-post, says: “She has charge of the paleface captive.”

From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by Tilney, F.C.

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.

Thus the Indian trail which passed near Council Rock was first used as the path of the paleface warriors.

From The Story of Cooperstown by Birdsall, Ralph