Sekirov Dictionary

sallow

UK /ˈsæləʊ/US /ˈsæloʊ/

adjective 6
noun 2
verb 2
forms 5

adjective6

Yellowish.
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Of a sickly pale colour.
- Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine Hath wash’d thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline! — 1591
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Having skin (especially on the face) of a sickly pale colour.
- Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. You will become sallow, and hollow-cheeked, and dull-eyed. — 1891
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Having a similar pale, yellowish colour.
- The terrible descriptions were so real and vivid, that the sallow pages seemed to turn red with gore […] — 1838
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(Ireland) Of a tan colour, associated with people from southern Europe or East Asia.
- The girls are mostly Slavic-pretty, long-limbed with high cheekbones, sallow skin and green eyes. They are the closest thing to supermodels that Mulhuddart has ever seen. — 2007
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Foul; murky; sickly.
- The boat's deck was covered in moss, and its warm, sallow water was filled with lichens that gave off an eerie green glow. — 2011

noun2

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A European willow, Salix caprea, that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood.
- I[f] a man eate the flowers of a sallow or wyllowe tree, or of a Poplet tree, they wyl make cold al the heate of carnall lust in hym. — 1553
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A willow twig or branch.
- Who-so that buildeth his hous al of salwes, And priketh his blinde hors over the falwes, And suffreth his wyf to go seken halwes, Is worthy to been hanged on the galwes! — 1542

verb2

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To become sallow.
- The tan of his sunburnt face and hands contrasted sadly with the sallowing skin of the girl-wife, who, despite his care, was sinking under her task of son-bearing. — 1912
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To cause (someone or something) to become sallow.
- But would a pretender carry his or her cunning to the extreme of fortifying the manuscript in every possible way against the sallowing touch of time[…]? — 1889

forms

sallowed · sallowing · sallows · sallower · sallowest

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