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plural white men
A man of northern European descent or having that appearance. quotations examples
Therefore he whacked the old nigger mercilessly, while a big crowd of his people watched him, thunderstruck, till some man, - I was told the chief's son, - in desperation at hearing the old chap yell, made a tentative jab with a spear at the white man - and of course it went quite easy between the shoulder-blades.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], part I, page 198
(Should we delete(+) this sense?) white people collectively; white culture. quotations examples
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.
1927, A. M. Hocart, Are Savages Custom-Bound?, in Man, vol. 27
[…] 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, […]
1933, G. St. J. Orde Browne, British Justice and the African, in the Journal of the Royal African Society, vol. 32, no. 127
Well the Aboriginals are trying to step forward a little but in a lot of ways the white man is still keeping them down, in a politeful sort of way.
1992, Bruce Shaw, When the Dust Come in Between, page 149
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, man. quotations examples
The white men are always put on that side of the board which commences by row 1, and the black men are placed opposite.
1883, Henry Richter, Chess Simplified!, page 4
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.
1908, The Chess Amateur, volume 2, page 39