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Sallowness

noun
1.
A sickly yellowish skin color.





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"Sallowness" Quotes from Famous Books



... faint glare of Elsa Speier's silent sallowness. Her clear-threaded nimbus of pallid hair was the lowest point in the range of figures across the table. She darted quick glances at one and another without moving her head, and Miriam felt that her pale eyes fully met would be ...
— Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage, Volume 1 • Dorothy Richardson
... red. The blue dress gives yellow to the face; the yellow dress gives blue; these results are altered materially by the intervention of white between the face and the dress. White intensifies color. If there is a tinge of pink in the face white brings it out. If there is sallowness in the face white accentuates it. It is for this reason that many women wear yellow instead of white at the neck, so that the yellow of the face becomes less conspicuous by ...
— Color Value • C. R. Clifford


Words linked to "Sallowness" :   skin colour, complexion, sallow, skin color


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