His voice was hollow, etiolated like a flower grown in darkness.
etiolated, blanched by excluding the light, as the stalks of Celery.
The green colour of etiolated plants may be restored by exposure to light.
His abstract and etiolated internationalism has been replaced by the warm humanity of writers like, say, David or Pernerstorfer.
Suddenly began the plaint of the organ, and some half-dozen voices sang a hymn; and these pale, etiolated voices interested her.
Then the pale, etiolated voices of the nuns, the wailing of these weak voices—there were three altos, three sopranos—began again.
Mr. Jevons, however, adduces it as proof of 'the existence of the totem-sacrament,' surviving 'in an etiolated form.'
I had noticed that the woman was raw-boned and stoop-shouldered, with that etiolated yellow flesh that comes of long overwork.
Pauline surrendered, and they went across the etiolated lawn towards the entrance.
Chicken-hazard is scotched, not killed; but a poor, weazened, etiolated biped is that once game-bird now.
of plants, "grown in darkness," 1791, from French étiolé, past participle of étioler "to blanch" (17c.), perhaps literally "to become like straw," from Norman dialect étule "a stalk," Old French esteule "straw, field of stubble," from Latin stipula "straw." Related: Etiolated.
