adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sallow complexion (= slightly yellow )
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A sallow complexion can be a sign of illness.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
complexion
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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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He was a man in his late twenties, dark and thin with a sallow complexion .
face
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He liked the look of the man - about Jackson's own build, a lean, slightly sallow face .
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I stared up into the kind-eyed, sallow face of Catherine of Aragon.
skin
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He has lost weight and there is a new darkening in the sallow skin beneath his eyes.
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The woman was slightly fat, with loose sallow skin and a slow and uneven gait.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He has lost weight and there is a new darkening in the sallow skin beneath his eyes.
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He liked the look of the man - about Jackson's own build, a lean, slightly sallow face.
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His face was sallow , his lips curled down in a perpetual sulk.
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The drip, drip of winter skis propped up outside rooms have left their their sallow mark.
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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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The woman was slightly fat, with loose sallow skin and a slow and uneven gait.
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Would Andrew Cartboy, so tiny and sallow , become a Dynmouth Hard?