noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fresh complexion
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She has brown hair, hazel eyes and a fresh complexion.
sallow face/skin/complexion
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a woman with dark hair and a sallow complexion
youthful appearance/looks/complexion
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She has managed to maintain her youthful appearance.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dark
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The Trinity House records of the time describe him as 5 feet 8 inches tall, with black hair and dark complexion .
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Born in the nearby Mena village, Furjani is a tall man whose dark complexion conveys his sub-Saharan ancestry.
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Even Harvey - who had a dark complexion - had gone the colour of a boiled lobster.
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This younger woman was very attractive with a dark complexion and thick black hair tied in a pony tail.
different
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To me, the fact that she hasn't been heard of again in seventeen years puts a different complexion on it.
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Preston emerged after the interval with a new spring in their step, and the game took on a different complexion .
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It may put a different complexion on things.
fair
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Some of the mummies had long, dark hair and incredibly well preserved faces, even an almost fair complexion .
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Ritu had been chosen on account of her suitable family background and her fair complexion .
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A non-smoker and a teetotaller, Taylor was stockily built and of fair complexion .
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She has collar-length curly blonde hair, brown eyes and a fair complexion .
fresh
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Simon's fresh , clear complexion was sallow.
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To qualify for the competition entrants should have a clear, fresh complexion and be between three and nine years old.
olive
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Her skin complemented her hair; she had an olive complexion which shone like burnished gold.
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They were well-groomed, clean-shaven young men with olive complexions .
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A thick mop of black hair over a man-boy's smooth olive complexion .
pale
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The youthful face was inscrutable and unsmiling with a flawless pale bronze complexion .
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About five foot ten, well dressed, pale white complexion , blue eyes.
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Ada was a particularly striking young lady, with a pale complexion contrasted by very dark hair.
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She has a pale complexion and hazel eyes.
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But the pale complexion will be masked in the make-up room.
political
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The difference goes far deeper than the political complexion of the government.
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The office has traditionally had a political complexion .
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Both are fairly liberal and will leave the political complexion of the Lords roughly the same.
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In addition each London borough has its own characteristics, its own social, political and cultural complexion .
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As the political complexion of successive governments changed, so - frequently - did many of the top appointments in broadcasting.
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The balance between additions and cuts will depend on the financial climate and the political complexion of the council.
ruddy
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He was a small man with a shock of white hair, and a ruddy complexion from his liking for port.
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He identified Davis as one of the people and described the other as a stocky woman with a ruddy complexion .
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No emotion showed on Dempster's impassive face, only a slight pallor in his normally ruddy complexion .
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Methuen was a good-looking man, tall and fair, with a ruddy complexion .
sallow
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He had a bony, tortured face, angry, slanting peacock-blue eyes, bronze curls and a sallow complexion .
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The imam still bore the mark of that experience in his gaunt frame and sallow , jaundiced complexion .
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He was a man in his late twenties, dark and thin with a sallow complexion .
■ VERB
put
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To me, the fact that she hasn't been heard of again in seventeen years puts a different complexion on it.
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This puts an entirely new complexion on things.
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It may put a different complexion on things.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
high complexion/colouring
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Tone down high colouring by using a green moisturiser or under-make-up base before applying foundation.
olive skin/complexion
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She had a long oval face and an olive complexion.
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A thick mop of black hair over a man-boy's smooth olive complexion.
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Her eyes were dark and luminous and her faintly olive skin normally carried a dusting of colour, high on her cheekbones.
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Her skin complemented her hair; she had an olive complexion which shone like burnished gold.
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His olive skin seemed to glint in the soft light of the hallway; the flat behind him was almost totally dark.
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Of course, I thought, she has olive skin.
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The sooty eyes, the olive skin, the coarse black mop of the moustache gave little clue as to his origins.
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They were well-groomed, clean-shaven young men with olive complexions.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Alice is lighter in complexion than her mother.
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Too much sun is bad for your complexion .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His eyes were an astounding blue and his complexion was ruddy from a life spent mostly at sea.
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If their complexion was their most celebrated feature, then perhaps a long necklace of perfect pearls.
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She has collar-length curly blonde hair, brown eyes and a fair complexion .
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The difference goes far deeper than the political complexion of the government.
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The Trinity House records of the time describe him as 5 feet 8 inches tall, with black hair and dark complexion .
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To describe myself as Black in a situation where most people shared my complexion was absurd.