palefacen.adj.

1723 ‘Punster’ Coquet's Surrender 49 Do you know Miss Puny Paleface of Shrewsbury?]

1797 S. J. Arnold Shipwreck i. i. 6 Get home, I say, pale-face, and leave us to our midnight occupations; the wind is chilling, you'll catch cold.

1799 Aurora 15 Mar. 3/2 Mr Sterrett..manifested his hatred to pale faces.

1823 G. A. McCall Let. Jan. in Lett. from Frontiers (1868) 72 [At a masquerade ball, a man dressed as] an Indian chief..thus accosted him,—‘Ah, Paleface! what brings you here?’

1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. iv. 52 ‘The pale faces make themselves dogs to their women,’ muttered the Indian, in his native language.

1895 S. R. Hole Little Tour Amer. 237 Julius Berge was the first pale-face born here [i.e. at Whitewater] some fifty-four years ago.

1937 Pacific Affairs 10 219 The book yields no evidence of tropical experience, and does not answer the question except for the usual warnings that the palefaces had better watch out.

1964 N.Y. Times Mag. 23 Aug. 62/2 Whitey, the latest word of contempt for a white person, superseding ofay and..paleface.

1991 Film Comment Mar. 72/1 Apache..upends Western clichés, more or less endorsing the counterstereotype of Noble Savage perverted by palefaces.

1830 T. Flint Shoshonee Valley I. iii. 62 The interpreter informed the crowd, that the ‘pale-face’ trader..had come.

1883 Bismarck (Dakota Territory) Tribune 8 June 6/5 In the paleface camp he's been bumming A promiscuous medley of hash.

1949 Sat. Evening Post 2 July 29/1 Those [Indians] who had been exposed to college did sleep in the cabins on paleface beds.

1978 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Dec. 1388/2 The Indians dismissed cowboy pictures as yet another example of paleface treachery and were supported in this by Marlon Brando.

1992 Metro (San Jose, Calif.) 7 May 30/5 Paleface ‘soul man’ Bobby Caldwell may be a one-hit pony but what a hype hit it was.