Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Used as a disparaging term for a white person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name for a white person attributed to the American Indians, as if translated from a term in their languages.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pejorative, politically incorrect A white man of European descent.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (slang) a derogatory term for a white person (supposedly used by North American Indians)
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Examples
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They're hard and lumbering and they look down on the "paleface," the creatures of albumen that once roamed the galaxy.
scusteister: Stanislaw Lem and the Singularity: Cyberiad scusteister 2009
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They're hard and lumbering and they look down on the "paleface," the creatures of albumen that once roamed the galaxy.
Stanislaw Lem and the Singularity: Cyberiad scusteister 2009
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I am not sure what 'paleface' means but as far as 'we' goes I mean the people who like me have vested interest in the INFLUENCE on the events of life and death which are happening now and here through whatever means necessary.
The Mailer That Put the Final Nail in the McCain Campaign Coffin 2008
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"paleface," for, here and there, his wigwam might still be seen sending its wreath of blue smoke above the tree-tops.
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American writer of any color without using a language invented largely by paleface folks in the British Isles.
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In the mid-1990s, his passion for reform inspired him to engineer the rise of a proxy of color who could address problems in ways that he and fellow paleface Klonsky could not.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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Her mouth was drier than ever as she searched his paleface.
Ann Packer's 'Molten': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature Narrative Magazine 2010
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In the mid-1990s, his passion for reform inspired him to engineer the rise of a proxy of color who could address problems in ways that he and fellow paleface Klonsky could not.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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Her mouth was drier than ever as she searched his paleface.
Ann Packer's 'Molten': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature Narrative Magazine 2010
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I say this with TOTAL affection as a fellow paleface, but you must have been the whitest people on the island in that first shot.
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