white man
Noun
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Noun
white man
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see white, man
- 1908, The Chess Amateur, volume 2, page 39:
- We will suppose that you are the player of the white men, and that your opponent[,] the player of the black men[,] is sitting opposite to you, ready for battle.
- A Caucasian man; a European.
- White people collectively; White culture.
- 1927, A. M. Hocart, Are Savages Custom-Bound?, in Man, vol. 27
- Savages are commonly supposed to be the slaves of custom to a far greater degree than the White Man, who by contrast appears as the child of reason.
- 1933, G. St. J. Orde Browne, British Justice and the African, in the Journal of the Royal African Society, vol. 32, no. 127
- […] very little attempt seems to have been made so far to deal with the whole problem of the African in contact with white man’s law, ...
- 1927, A. M. Hocart, Are Savages Custom-Bound?, in Man, vol. 27
- 1908, The Chess Amateur, volume 2, page 39:
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