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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By and by appeared the faint lights of the house, with blotchy pallors thinning the mist and darkness.
From Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald
Congo gleams, college boy pallors, the smiles of black and white men and women interlace.
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht
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
Again the spirit, if there is fear, is perturbed and made cold, generates tremors and terrors and pallors in the body.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
