Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a face resembling tallow in color; pale or pasty in complexion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a sickly complexion; pale.
Etymologies
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Examples
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“Who is that tallow-faced Put with the carroty hair?” says Jack Morris, on whom the Burgundy had had its due effect.
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Alas, poor tallow-faced Chandlers, I met them mourning through the streets, and complaining that they could get no vent for their Mustard, for want of Brawn.
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"Which there's a little tallow-faced runt in perspective," he says, climbing down the stays, "that I can lick," he says, being misled by my size.
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It was the tallow-faced man, wanting two fingers, who had come first to the Admiral Benbow.
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It was the tallow-faced man, wanting two fingers, who had come first to the "Admiral Benbow."
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The youth was a tall, tallow-faced individual, who looked as if he had not the spirit of a mouse; the horse was quickly hitched to the carriage and he drove off with Maurice.
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But there were numbers of people passing along the thoroughfares -- mostly groups of young men of about two-and-twenty, tallow-faced, round-shouldered, wearing over-coats and billycock hats, and smoking short pipes; and there were crowded omnibuses coming rolling along (what a difference was this roar and rabble from the quiet of the Sabbath morning far away there on the northern coast!), and these people must live somewhere.
The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols
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Hark! the tallow-faced monsters, nor women nor boys,
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Hark! the tallow-faced monsters, nor women nor boys,
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Hark! the tallow-faced monsters, nor women nor boys,
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