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☆ dough·face (-fās′)

noun

in the Civil War, a Northerner who sided with the South on the slavery issue

Etymology: dough + face

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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