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paleface
[ peyl-feys ]
noun
- Slang. a white person, as distinguished from a North American Indian.
paleface
/ ˈpeɪlˌfeɪs /
noun
- a derogatory term for a White person, said to have been used by North American Indians
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Black-deer exclaimed, as he rose quickly, "the Paleface has a lying tongue in his mouth."
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But one day a paleface, one of the leaders of the colony at Plymouth, came into the Indian village.
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The wild man is bad enough, but there comes another man—the paleface—who has no heart for what is dearest to us.
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Then they rode rapidly away undoubtedly taking great pleasure in the fright they had given the Paleface.
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"The two women will follow us, as well as the paleface hunters," one of the Indians commanded.
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