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noble savage
noun
Definition of NOBLE SAVAGE
: a mythic conception of people belonging to non-European cultures as having innate natural simplicity and virtue uncorrupted by European civilization; also : a person exemplifying this conception
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First Known Use of NOBLE SAVAGE
1670
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