PALEFACE Definition & Meaning

paleface

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noun

Slang. a white person, as distinguished from a North American Indian.

paleface

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noun

a derogatory term for a White person, said to have been used by North American Indians

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of paleface¹

1815–25; pale ¹ + face, expression attributed to 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: “What 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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