What's the difference between paleface and whiteface?
Paleface
Definition:
(n.) A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians.
Example Sentences:
(1) He continued in the same wisecracking vein opposite Jane Russell in two spoof Westerns, The Paleface (1948), in which he was a correspondence-school dentist, and Son Of Paleface (1952) where, having caused derision among cowboys in a saloon by ordering milk, Hope quickly adds "in a dirty glass".
(2) Of his lack of much formal education, Hope once commented: "I didn't get to college until I played a Harvard man in Son of Paleface."
Whiteface
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Most Finn x whiteface-cross ewes, which normally reach reproductive maturity earlier than Suffolk x whiteface-cross ewes, exhibited ossified metacarpal growth plates by 459 d of age; break joints of Suffolk x whiteface crosses were not fused until 557 d of age.
(2) Hampshire-sired lambs grew faster than whiteface lambs, particularly in drylot.
(3) The controversial exhibition used "whiteface" – a black model becoming a white woman.
(4) Fifty-one ewes, 50 wethers and 51 rams of Finn x whiteface or Suffolk x whiteface breeding were slaughtered at an average age of 271, 361, 459, 557 or 652 d to study changes in maturity characteristics with changes in age.
(5) Trial 2 compared Hampshire-sired lambs (females, early castrate wethers and late castrate wethers) from Suffolk x Coopworth dams and whiteface x Coopworth dams.
(6) Four elevation transects sampling spruce on the east and west sides of Mount Washington (New Hampshire) and Camels Hump (Vermont) and a single transect on the southwest side of Whiteface Mountain (New York) were made to investigate the degree of hybridization and introgression between these two species.
(7) Group 3 included 21 black-faced (BF) rams (six Hampshire and 15 Suffolk) and 46 whitefaced (WF) rams (nine Dorset, 20 Barbados Blackbelly X Dorset, 10 Finn X Dorset and six Dorset X Finn).
(8) All trees sampled at all elevations on Whiteface Mountain were pure red spruce.
(9) Only 2 of 10 experimental ewes (20%) with whiteface natural lambs adopted blackface add-on lambs.