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- adjective
superlative form ofsallow : mostsallow .
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Examples
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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. Tullivers any day.
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'There,' people of wide experience would say, 'There goes the sallowest bimetallist in Cheshire.'
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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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