Crossword clues for paleface
paleface
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paleface \Pale"face`\ (p[=a]l"f[=a]s`), n.
A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been
applied to the whites by the American Indians.
--J. F.
Cooper.
Wiktionary
n. (context pejorative slang English) A white person; a person of :w:European descent.
WordNet
n. a derogatory term for a white person (said to have been used by North American Indians)
Wikipedia
Paleface is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and artist who has been active in the music business in the United States since 1989. He has never publicly revealed his real name.
Paleface may refer to:
- White people, an ethnic slur used by some Native Americans
- Mooning; in Chilean Spanish, the act of mooning is known as cara pálida, lit. Paleface.
- Paleface (musician), an American singer, songwriter, musician, and artist
- Paleface (Finnish musician), a Finnish hip hop musician
- The Paleface (1922 film) starring Buster Keaton
- The Paleface (1948 film) starring Bob Hope
- Paleface attack, a popular chess opening
- Hibiscus denudatus, a plant known by the common name "paleface"
Karri Pekka Matias Miettinen (born April 21, 1978), better known by his stage name Paleface, is a Finnish hip hop musician.
Usage examples of "paleface".
Back in the Indian villages, an ever-increasing majority became convinced that firewater and gluttonous paleface civilization were synonymous, that they must rise and retake their land forcibly, killing in the process as many drunken renegades as they came across.
The blow made the bear angry as the Thunder God, and before they could push off shore the bear got his claws on the edge of the canoe, and away they all went sailing into midstream, the palefaces paddling for all their lives, and the black bear clinging on to the canoe.
The palefaces swam back to their camp and their guns, calling out to me over and over to save their canoe for them.
He would sit for hours together in his big tepee counting his piles of furs, smoking, grumbling and storming at the inroads of the palefaces on to his lands and hunting grounds.
Three of the palefaces looked like triplets-two men and a woman-with sad, bespectacled eyes, freckles, and wild, wiry orange hair.
The Reverend Doctor, being now left alone, engaged the Widow Rowens, who put the best face on her vexation she could, but was devoting herself to all the underground deities for having been such a fool as to ask that palefaced thing from the Institute to fill up her party.
Many more Jem Hadar, with their ugly palefaces like broken rocks, surged through and formedup ranks.
Does the mighty Sachem yearn to drink the blood of his enemies, or is he satisfied to make bead reticules for the pappooses of the paleface?
Lord knows there are rascals on both sides a just Lord would fry in Hell forever, but that New England Sentinel only knows about bad palefaces.
He could envision it clearly: the paleface sucker from Florida somberly questioning other Navahos about sandpaintings and medicine men.