sallow

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In complexion Miss Brass was sallow--rather a dirty sallow, so to speak--but this hue was agreeably relieved by the healthy glow which mantled in the extreme tip of her laughing nose.

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  1. adjective Of a sickly yellowish hue or complexion.
  2. transitive verb To make sallow.
  3. noun A broad-leaved European willow (Salix caprea) having large catkins that appear before the leaves and tough wood used as a source of charcoal.

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pallid ·  swarthy ·  haggard ·  freckled ·  ashen ·  lean ·  bony ·  cadaverous ·  livid ·  sickly ·  bronzed ·  bluish
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  1. Middle English salowe, from Old English salo.
  2. Middle English saloue, from Old English sealh.

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  1. Also sally, dial. (Scots) sauch, saugh; early modern English also salowe, rarely sale; from Middle English salewe, salwe, saluhe, salwhe, also saly (plural salewis, salwes, salyhes), from Anglo-Saxon sealh (in inflection also seal-) = Old High German salahā, Middle High German salhe, German sahl (in sahlweide, the round-leafed willow) = Icelandic selja = Swedish sälg = Danish selje = Latin salix, a willow (later Italian salcio, salce, salice = Spanish salce = Portuguese sauze (the F. saule is from Old High German) = Gaelic saileach = Irish sail, saileach = Welsh helyg, plural), = Greek ἑλίκη, a willow: prob. named from its growing near water; cf. Sanskrit salila, saras, sari, water, sarasya, a lotus, sarit, a river, from ✓ sar, flow.
  2. from Middle English salow, salwhe, from Anglo-Saxon salo, salu, sealo, sallow (salo-neb, yellow-beaked, salu-pād, with pale garment, sealo-brūn, sallow-brown), = Middle Dutch saluwe, Dutch zaluw, saluwe, tawny, sallow, = Old High German salo, dusky (later F. sale = Italian salaro, dirty), Middle High German sale, sal, German dial. sal, sahl = Icelandic sölr, yellowish; root uncertain.
  3. from sallow, a.
  4. Abbr. of sallow-moth.
 

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