sallow
IPA: sˈæɫoʊ
noun
- A European willow, Salix caprea, that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood.
- A willow twig or branch.
verb
- (intransitive) To become sallow.
- (transitive) To cause (someone or something) to become sallow.
adjective
- (of skin) Yellowish.
- (most regions, of light skin) Of a sickly pale colour.
- (Ireland) Of a tan colour, associated with people from southern Europe or East Asia.
- (of a person) Having skin (especially on the face) of a sickly pale colour.
- (of objects or dim light) Having a similar pale, yellowish colour.
- Foul; murky; sickly.
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Examples of "sallow" in Sentences
- She looked tired and sallow.
- They prefer the sallow leaves.
- The doctor said that he looks sallow.
- She was sallow and blond with white skin.
- They prefer the leaves of the broad leaved sallow.
- Asians were sallow, avaricious and easily distracted.
- Characteristic trees include alder, willow and sallow.
- The complexion becomes sallow, exactly alike in these cases.
- The larva feed on various deciduous trees such as oak, birch and sallow.
- As I turned the handle I wondered idly what kind of sallow Turk or bulging-necked German we should find inside.
- Abner! "and he called his sallow-faced companion, who was already arguing salvation and temperance with some of the crew.
- "You've been lookin 'kind of sallow these last days, so I've got a spoonful of molasses and sulphur laid right by yo' plate."
- "You've been lookin 'kind of sallow these last days, so I've got a spoonful of molasses and sulphur, laid right by yo' plate."
- "The bark of what we call asp-wood, ma'am, which is a kind of sallow; they lay up great quantities of it in the autumn as a provision for winter, when they are frozen up for some months."
- He quotes also a poem that calls the sallow ‘the strength of bees’, and the hawthorn, ‘the barking of hounds’, and the gooseberry bush, ‘the sweetest of trees’, and the yew, ‘the oldest of trees’.
- He was a tall handsome young man, slightly built, with the kind of sallow complexion that women admire, and I wondered at his preferring my company to that of the womankind on board, who were certainly very civil to him.
- She was wearing a bluish print dress that brought out a kind of sallow warmth in her skin, and although it was nearly four o'clock in the afternoon, her sleeves were tucked up, as if for some domestic work, above the elbows, showing her rather slender but very shapely yellowish arms.
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