a. and sb.
A. adj. ? Having or resembling a white skin.
1634. Quarles, Mildreirados, xv. The coorsegrain’d Lockrom, and the white-skin Lawne Are both subjected to the selfesame Fate.
1823. Jas. Kennedy, Poems, 85 (E.D.D.). Wauking some wife’s white skin blankets, Or some flannel for her douf.
B. sb. A white-skinned man, a white man. (Cf. redskin.)
1826. J. F. Cooper, Last of Mohicans, xiv. ’Twould have been … an inhuman act for a white-skin; but ’tis the … natur’ of an Indian.
1874. Bleek, in Folklore (1919), XXX. 155. The red Bushman looks down upon the black-man quite as much as any orthodox white skin does.
