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adj (English)
1. (of skin) Yellowish.Examples: "Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine Hath wash’d thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!"; "[…] were it not that his Complexion is sallow, and that he is something short of a Leg, and Blind of one Eye, he would positively be the most lovely of all the human Species."; "Once a handsome face, with bright color, it was now sallow and deep-lined […]"
2. (of skin) Yellowish.Examples: "The girls are mostly Slavic-pretty, long-limbed with high cheekbones, sallow skin and green eyes. They are the closest thing to supermodels that Mulhuddart has ever seen."; "A yellow undertone is often found on people with sallow skin – e.g. Asian."; "She had such lovely sallow skin, the handsome high cheekbones of the north with the brown conker-colour eyes and the dark silken hair."Ireland
3. (of a person) Having skin (especially on the face) of a sickly pale colour.Examples: "Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. You will become sallow, and hollow-cheeked, and dull-eyed."; "She put her hand on the arm of her careworn, sallow father, and frothing her light draperies, proceeded over the eternal red carpet."; "In a matter of hours she was looking gaunt, and sallow: her face had a kind of negative color."
4. (of objects or dim light) Having a similar pale, yellowish colour.Examples: "The terrible descriptions were so real and vivid, that the sallow pages seemed to turn red with gore […]"; "On the opposite bank of the Allier the land kept mounting for miles to the horizon: a tanned and sallow autumn landscape […]"; "Scenes like this — the sallow evening light, the old Indian cropping grass, the creak of the cartwheels, the streaming egrets — were more native to him than England."
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To become sallow.Examples: "The tan of his sunburnt face and hands contrasted sadly with the sallowing skin of the girl-wife, who, despite his care, was sinking under her task of son-bearing."; "I might have stemmed them in a narrow vase And watched each petal sallowing . . ."; "His complexion had darkened, sallowed; his black moustache had lost boldness, become sardonic; there were lines which she did not know about his face."intransitive
2. (transitive) To cause (someone or something) to become sallow.Examples: "1835, Fanny Kemble (as Frances Anne Butler), Journal, London: John Murray, Volume 1, entry for 15 September, 1832, p. 105, footnote, The climate of this country is the scape-goat upon which all ill looks and ill health of the ladies is laid; but while they are brought up as effeminately as they are, take as little exercise, live in rooms like ovens during the winter, and marry as early as they do, it will appear evident that many causes combine with an extremely variable climate, to sallow their complexions, and destroy their constitutions."; "But would a pretender carry his or her cunning to the extreme of fortifying the manuscript in every possible way against the sallowing touch of time[…]?"; "Mary Gowd, with her frumpy English hat and her dreadful English fringe, and her brick-red English cheeks, which not even the enervating Italian sun, the years of bad Italian food or the damp and dim little Roman room had been able to sallow."transitive
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