¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pakeha
1. a person who is not of Maori descent [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pakeha
Literary usage of Pakeha
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Progress of New Zealand in the Century by Robert Francis Irvine, Oscar Thorwald Johan Alpers (1902)
"A loose, straggling pakeha—a runaway from a ship, for instance, who had nothing
... My friend ate the pakeha, sure enough, and killed him before he ate him, ..."
2. The Boy Travellers in Australasia: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to by Thomas Wallace Knox (1889)
"You will wonder, as we did, what a pakeha Maori is. A rihl HA MAORI. ... A pakeha
who had trade goods was always welcome, but a man who had nothing was of ..."
3. Old New Zealand: A Tale of the Good Old Times by Frederick Edward Maning (1863)
"HERE I must remark that in those days the value of a pakeha to a tribe was ...
A pakeha trader was therefore of a value say about twenty times his own ..."
4. Old New Zealand: Being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old by Frederick Edward Maning (1863)
"The Market Price of a pakeha.—The Value of a pakeha " as such. ... HERE 1 must
remark that in those days the value of a pakeha to a tribe was enormous. ..."
5. The History of Taranaki: A Standard Work on the History of the Province by Benjamin Wells (1878)
"Then came the pakeha hither by sea from other dwellings—they came to this land
and the ... And the pakeha said, 'Are you willing to sell us this land ? ..."
6. New Zealand in Evolution: Industrial, Economic and Political by Guy Hardy Scholefield, William Pember Reeves (1909)
"... of the race threatened—The Treaty of Waitangi—The pre- pakeha Maori—A change
in the savage economy—Relapse into barbarism—pakeha arts discarded—A native ..."
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