sallow

IPA: sˈæɫoʊ

A European willow, Salix caprea, that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood.
A willow twig or branch.

(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.

Examples of "sallow" in Sentences

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.