sallow
1of a sickly, yellowish or lightish brown color: sallow cheeks; a sallow complexion.
to make sallow.
Origin of sallow
1Other words for sallow
Other words from sallow
- sal·low·ish, adjective
- sal·low·ness, noun
Words Nearby sallow
Other definitions for sallow (2 of 2)
any of several shrubby Old World willows, especially Salix atrocinerea or the pussy willow, S. caprea.
Origin of sallow
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How to use sallow in a sentence
Lincoln would endure bout after bout of the hypos, until a permanent sadness settled onto his sallow face.
Making Lincoln Sexy: Jerome Charyn’s Fictional President | Tom LeClair | March 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJunkies have their own look (emaciated, haunted, sallow) and their own junk names: Doolie, Cash, and Dupré.
American Dreams, 1953: ‘Junky’ by William S. Burroughs | Nathaniel Rich | June 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThis John is sickly and sallow, his body lacking plasticity.
Again the sallow fingers began to play with the book-covers, passing from one to another, but always slowly and gently.
Bella Donna | Robert HichensNow and then he touched one with his long and sallow fingers, lifted its cover, then let it drop mechanically.
Bella Donna | Robert Hichens
After a few minutes he returned, and then his sallow countenance wore a smile.
She patted the sallow cheek of the American with her jewelled fingers, and turned aside, glancing about her.
Dope | Sax RohmerThen, the sallow, black-haired knave who had last night proclaimed himself as Garnache in disguise was some impostor.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael Sabatini
British Dictionary definitions for sallow (1 of 2)
/ (ˈsæləʊ) /
(esp of human skin) of an unhealthy pale or yellowish colour
(tr) to make sallow
Origin of sallow
1Derived forms of sallow
- sallowish, adjective
- sallowly, adverb
- sallowness, noun
British Dictionary definitions for sallow (2 of 2)
/ (ˈsæləʊ) /
any of several small willow trees, esp the Eurasian Salix cinerea (common sallow), which has large catkins that appear before the leaves
a twig or the wood of any of these trees
Origin of sallow
2Derived forms of sallow
- sallowy, adjective
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