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paleface
[ peyl-feys ]
noun
- Slang. a white person, as distinguished from a North American Indian.
paleface
/ ˈɪˌڱɪ /
noun
- a derogatory term for a White person, said to have been used by North American Indians
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Many of the writers Winters most admired wound up in Rahv’s paleface pantheon—Hawthorne, Melville, Emily Dickinson, Henry James.
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In 2018 we have come, finally, to the punch line of an old joke—the one that ends with Tonto asking the Lone Ranger: “ do you mean ‘we,’ paleface?”
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“It was written by me - it was a kid letter and didn’t have adult print on it. And I used Indians terminology, like ‘paleface.’”
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"Crowfoot him think all paleface drink the firewater."
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But, devoted to the paleface, he had for her sake curbed his heat.
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