sallow
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7.7
- adjective
- /ˈsæloʊ/
:
amarillento
- One prisoner lies on a hammock, his hair half hiding his sallow face.
- sallow face
- sallow skin
- sallow complexion
Even the people that are quite light skinned are sallow or yellowish.
- Even the people that are quite light skinned are sallow or yellowish.
Examples
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His thin face was very sallow, nearly yellow, and his hair was wavy and very black.
Fiction book (1996) -
A wizened man, whose sallow face sagged with the weight of his years, padded noiselessly into the room.
Fiction book (1992) -
The natural color of his skin was slightly sallow, she thought.
Fiction book (1995) -
Turned, her face was thin and sallow in light; it had the beauty only of bones.
Fiction book (1997) -
While most of the women had sallow faces, hers looked white and healthy like fresh milk.
Fiction book (1993) -
Both are under thirty; one is tall, sallow, thin, and looks worried.
Fiction book (1995) -
The color's all wrong for your sallow complexion.
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Even the people that are quite light skinned are sallow or yellowish.
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Now she could see him: tall, swarthy, his complexion sallow in the yellowish light of the street lamp above her.
Fiction book (1990) -
His face was sallow after weeks of illness, making him look far older than his years.
Synonyms
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2.6
Often ill and looking weak or pale
Antonyms
How Unhealthy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sallow (adjective) comes from the tree name: the leaves and bark of the sallow (a type of willow) can be pale or yellowish, so the word came to mean 'yellowish' or 'unhealthy' in skin colour.