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Paleface

Definition: Paleface

Paleface

Noun

1. A derogatory term for a white person (said to have been used by North American Indians).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "paleface" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references)

Modern Usage: Paleface

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Son of Paleface (1952)

The Paleface (1948)

Red Wing and the Paleface (1912)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Paleface

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Tale from Paleface Creek (reference)

  • Jamaican paleface : the hilarious observations of one of Jamaica's top comedians (reference)

  • Paleface (reference)

  • Paleface, the philosophy of the "melting-pot" (reference)

  • Reflections of a Paleface from the Rosebud: Stories and Tales That Need to Be Told (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Bob Hope Tribute Collection - Sorrowful Jones / The Paleface Double Feature (reference)

  • Son of Paleface (reference)

  • The Art of Buster Keaton- V.7 Go West, The Scarecrow and The Paleface (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Paleface

"Paleface" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Paleface" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Paleface

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

paleface

17

son of paleface

6

paleface park

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Paleface

Language Translations for "paleface"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

I Bardhë Njeri. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏الأبيض شخص من العرق الأبيض. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

Бледолик. (various references)

   

Czech

  

Bìloch (white). (various references)

   

French

  

Visage Terreux, Visage Pale. (various references)

   

German

  

Bleichgesicht (pasty face). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ּבן װ ים. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

Sápadt Arcú (pale-face). (various references)

   

Manx

  

bane-eddinagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alefacepay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

Fazer Perder A Cor, Cara-pálida. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

Бледнолицый. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

bledoliki, bledog lica (pasty faced). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Rostro Pálido. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Blekansikte. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

Solukbenizli. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

Блідолиций. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Paleface

Derivations

Words beginning with "paleface": palefaces. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Paleface" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pagliacci, Palojame, Papelaco, pleeeease. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Paleface

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-f-l-p"

-2 letters: faecal, palace, paleae.

-3 letters: apace, clepe, fecal, palea, peace, place.

-4 letters: alae, alec, alee, alef, alfa, cafe, calf, cape, cepe, clap, clef, face, feal, feel, flap, flea, flee, lace, leaf, leap, paca, pace, pale, peal, peel, pele, pelf, plea.

-5 letters: aal, ace, ala, ale, alp, ape, cap, cee, cel, cep, eel, elf, fee, lac, lap, lea, lee, pac, pal, pea, pec, pee.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-f-l-p"
 

+1 letter: faceplate, palefaces.

 

+2 letters: faceplates.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Paleface


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 61 6C 65 66 61 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.--.    .-    .-..    .    ..-.    .-    -.-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100001 01101100 01100101 01100110 01100001 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#97 &#108 &#101 &#102 &#97 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0061 006C 0065 0066 0061 0063 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5067787172676971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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