paleface
Meaning of paleface
noun
a white person (used in fictional representations of the speech of North American Indians).
early 18th century (in the sense ‘person whose face is pale as a result of fear or shock’): the sense ‘white person’ dates from the early 19th century and was popularized by American writers such as James Fenimore Cooper (see Cooper, James Fenimore).
Information about paleface
- It is a name.
- The plural form of paleface is: palefaces.
- Languages in which paleface is used:
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Hyphenation of paleface
pale-face
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- paleface is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with paleface
face, aface, clubface, subface, boldface, extraboldface, hardface, Preface, braeface, contreface, deface, falseface, foreface, mapleface, overpreface, preface, reface, shameface, shoreface, squareface, stoneface, typeface, whiteface, efface, dogface, frogface, pigface, puddingface, doughface, Boniface, antiface, biface, boniface, ediface, uniface, blackface, chalkface, clockface, fuckface, smockface, coalface, dollface, fullface, brazenface, downface, enface, inface, moonface, pippinface, unface