pallor
noun
unusual or extreme paleness, as from fear, ill health, or death; wanness.
pallors
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pluralof pallor.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The flushes and pallors chased each other over her face, and the sight of her pleasure in being beautiful charmed Staniford.
From The Lady of the Aroostook by William Dean Howells
The paper words seem to bedeck with blossom these shores of pestilence, this Valley of Death, with their countless pallors of barren lies.
From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Fitzwater Wray
Wherever the coy earth veils her face With tresses of forest hair; Where polar pallors her blushes efface, Or tropical blooms lend her beauty and grace— I can flutter my plumage there!
From Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. by W. H. (William Henry) Rhodes
They were all admirable types, with chiselled features and pure lines, warm pallors of complexion of which even the reflections were absorbed by the whiteness of their haiks.
From The Nabob by W. Blaydes
Life has the same pallors and glooms; we are weary of ourselves and of others, we have the sensation of defeat upon defeat, of hopeless struggles, of mortal languors that no faith can lift.
From A Daughter of Fife by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
