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paleface
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun paleface has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
paleface, n.
A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians. J. F. Cooper. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
paleface, n. a name supposedly used by the N. American Indians for the White man.
THESAURUS
paleface
American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Bushman, Caucasian, Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Negro, Oriental, Red Indian, WASP, black, black man, blackfellow, boy, brown man, burrhead, colored person, coon, darky, gook, honky, jigaboo, jungle bunny, nigger, niggra, ofay, pygmy, red man, redskin, slant-eye, spade, the Man, white, white man, whitey, yellow man
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