pale-faced, a.
(ˈpeɪlfeɪst)
Having a pale face; pale in complexion, or (fig.) in aspect.
| 1592 Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 569 Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward. 1635 Quarles Embl. ii. ii. 15 The pale-faced lady of the black-ey'd night. 1758 Goldsm. Mem. Protestant (1895) I. 192 He was humped-back'd, pale-faced [etc.]. 1841 Catlin N. Amer. Ind. (1844) II. lviii. 229 The Indian's inferiority to their pale-faced neighbours. 1893 Scribner's Mag. June 743/1 The vast wealth of pale-faced lotos and shrinking water-lilies. |