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