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Definition of Pakehas
1. pakeha [n] - See also: pakeha
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pakehas
Literary usage of Pakehas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poenamo: Sketches of the Early Days in New Zealand : Romance and Reality of by John Logan Campbell (1881)
"Haere—haere—Go—go, pakehas, and pitch your tent on the solitary place of Motu
Korea, for you have found a new home—you are the pioneers of a race coming ..."
2. The Progress of New Zealand in the Century by Robert Francis Irvine, Oscar Thorwald Johan Alpers (1902)
"But good weH-to-do pakehas, traders, ship captains, labourers, ... One of the
earliest of the pakehas was George Bruce, whose story is worth telling. ..."
3. The Story of Our Colonies: With Sketches of Their Present Conditions by Henry Richard Fox Bourne (1869)
"... IN HUMAN HEADS OTHER DEBASING EMPLOYMENTS OF THE pakehas — PROGRESS OF ENGLISH
INFLUENCES — SPREAD OF CIVILIZATION — THE CHARACTER OF THE MAORIS. ..."
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