subs. (American colloquial).—A white: in poetry and fiction, as from an Indian dialect.
1842. G. H. COLTON, Tecumseh, ii. 18. [F]. Then shall the PALE-FACE sink to night.
1826. COOPER, The Last of the Mohicans, ii. 277. The “blessed hunting grounds of the Lenape” contained vales as pleasant, streams as pure, and flowers as sweet, as the “Heaven of the PALE-FACES.”
18[?]. DURFEE, WHATCHER, IV., xxxv. The PALEFACED strangers came.
