White men as distinct from Indians.

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1822.  [The masquerader] thus accosted him,—“Ah, Paleface! what brings you here?”—G. A. McCall, ‘Letters from the Frontiers’ (1868), p. 72. (N.E.D.) (Italics in the original.)

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1826.  J. F. Cooper (N.E.D.).

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