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
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
The sallowness of his complexion was gone, but the short locks of hair about his ears were as white as froth.
Skipper Worse | Alexander Lange KiellandThere was nothing unhealthy in her clear pallor, no hint of sallowness, but a soft, white glow.
Narcissa, or the Road to Rome | Laura E. RichardsThe poor man’s sallowness had become almost livid, and in half-sobbing words he exclaimed—‘Is it so?
Hopes and Fears | Charlotte M. YongeHe was a dark man, with a skin of oily sallowness; thickset, with something of the slow ungainliness of a toad.
'Me-Smith' | Caroline LockhartThe skin was yellow, but stretched so firm and hard on the cheek bones that the sallowness did not look unhealthy.
The Path of the King | John Buchan
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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