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paleface

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Definitions

  1. (slang) a derogatory term for a white person (supposedly used by North American Indians)

Word origin

From pale + face, a supposed calque from a Native American language. First appears in print c. 1797.

Used in a sentence

  • The hearts of the palefaces would not thrill to these superstitions of the red men, though we spoke of them in the centre of the haunted region.
  • High Jack had been drinking too much rum ever since we landed in Boca. You know how an Indian is—the palefaces fixed his clock when they introduced him to firewater.
  • Some Blackfeet Indians, with a taste and a respect for Nature that shames the paleface, have protested to the Secretary of the Interior[…]

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