pale face
Drained of color
Pale face is a mildly derisive term for a white person, associated with depictions of Native Americans in old Western films and novels: The pale faces speak with forked tongue.
The phrase sounds dated and theatrical today, more likely to appear in parody than serious use.
Sometimes spelled as one word: paleface.
- alabasterTranslucent carving stone
- complexionSkin tone, appearance
- fair-skinnedHaving light-colored skin
- featuresDistinctive qualities or aspects
- shockViolent sudden disturbance
pallor · ghost white · white as a sheet · albinism · white boy · fear · scared stiff · peaches-and-cream · grief · cold · horror · lifelessness · anemia · bloodless · frostbite · vitiligo · sickly · colonialism
- fear reactionsscream, scared, gasp, terrified, flinch
- hangoversheadache, nausea, thirst, dry mouth, fatigue
- stress reactionspanic, fear, fright, terror, horror
- nauseaqueasiness, queasy feeling, queasy stomach, sick feeling, upset stomach
- dizzinessdizziness, dizzy spell, lightheadedness, vertigo, wooziness