unbleached American

English

Noun

unbleached American (plural unbleached Americans)

  1. (slang, archaic, US) A black American.
    • quoted in 1994, Howard N. Rabinowitz, Race, Ethnicity, and Urbanization: Selected Essays (page 211)
      For nearly three years Raleigh has been to the great mobs of unbleached Americans in the western and contiguous counties of this state what Mecca is to the followers of Mohamet […]

References
  • 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary: "Yankee term, since the war, for coloured natives of the United States".
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