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

“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 Cullum, Ridgwell

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 Edwards, George Wharton

It is not Nacena who puts this question, but the paleface herself; speaking to him in her native tongue, as his.

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