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  • adjective superlative form of sallow: most sallow.

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Examples

  • It was quite unaccountable that Mrs. Deane, the thinnest and sallowest of all the Miss Dodsons, should have had this child, who might have been taken for Mrs. Tulliver’s any day.

    VII. Enter the Aunts and Uncles. Book I—Boy and Girl 1917

  • 'There,' people of wide experience would say, 'There goes the sallowest bimetallist in Cheshire.'

    The Napoleon of Notting Hill 1905

  • It was quite unaccountable that Mrs. Deane, the thinnest and sallowest of all the Miss Dodsons, should have had this child, who might have been taken for Mrs. Tulliver's any day.

    The Mill on the Floss George Eliot 1849

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