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palefaces

palefaces is the plural of paleface.

Meaning of paleface

Noun

paleface (plural palefaces)

  1. (derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur) A white person, a person of European descent, particularly in Native American contexts.
    • Dere is Great Wicked Spirit, too... Heart grow hard. Great pleasure was to kill pale-face. Dat feeling last, Blossom, till I see you. Feel like fader to you, and don't want your scalp... Still want all udder pale-face scalp. Want Bourdon scalp much as any.1848, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter XXVIII, in The Bee-Hunter, or, The Oak Openings

Noun capitalized: Palefaces

Palefaces

  1. (plural) plural of Paleface

Questions about palefaces

What is palefaces the plural of?
Palefaces is the plural of paleface.
What part of speech is palefaces?
Palefaces is a noun.

Words near palefaces in the dictionary

  1. paleencephalon
  2. paleethnological
  3. paleethnology
  4. paleface
  5. palefaced
  6. palefaces
  7. palegold searsid
  8. palegold searsids
  9. paleichthyology
  10. paleing
  11. paleings

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