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sallow
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synonyms: xanthous ???
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Definition:(of a person's face/complexion) unhealthy yellow or pale brown color
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She was a thin, sallow, sickly, and nervous woman, with brilliant black eyes.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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A ray fell on his features; the cheeks were sallow, and half covered with black whiskers; the brows lowering, the eyes deep-set and singular. I remembered the eyes.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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Her face was sallower, and there was a long scar, partly hidden by the hair, across her forehead and temple;
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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