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单词 red-skinned
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red-skinnedadj.

Brit. /ˌrɛdˈskɪnd/, U.S. /ˈrɛdˈskɪnd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: red adj., skinned adj.
Etymology: < red adj. + skinned adj. Compare earlier redskin n.
Sometimes considered offensive.
Of a person: of American Indian descent. Cf. redskin n. 1.In quot. 1819, of a person of African descent: (perhaps) pale-skinned or of mixed race; cf. red adj. 5e.
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Indian1590
American1611
red1725
American Indian1771
North American Indian1845
red-skinned1869
Amerind1899
Amerindian1899
pan-Indian1921
1819 T. E. Bowdich Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee ii. iii. 259 Adumissa, an extraordinarily beautiful red skinned woman of Cape Coast, possessed numerous admirers.]
1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks xiv. 156 Two or three red-skinned children, of about the same age as our wanderers, were tumbling and kicking about on the ground, in high frolic.
1883 Times 16 Jan. 9/4 Indian atrocities, if not unknown, resemble a running fight, in which each pause shows the red-skinned combatants fewer and farther.
1930 Classical Weekly 8 Nov. 57/1 There are red-skinned Indians from the wind-swept plains of North America.
1997 C. Newland Scholar (1998) vii. 102 I thought she was very nice anyway, seeing as she's got more manners than dat red-skinned sumt'in' he's bin seein'.
2001 S. Walton Out of It (2002) v. 146 The sooner the red-skinned heathens they had been sent to civilize were separated from it [sc. use of a hallucinogenic mushroom], the sooner God's salvific work could begin.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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