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sallow

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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sal·low /ˈsæləʊ $ -loʊ/ adjective  HBHsallow skin looks slightly yellow and unhealthy 〔皮肤〕灰黄色的,土色的sallow face/skin/complexion a woman with dark hair and a sallow complexion 一个黑头发、脸色蜡黄的女人sallowness noun [uncountable]
Examples from the Corpus
sallowWould Andrew Cartboy, so tiny and sallow, become a Dynmouth Hard?He liked the look of the man - about Jackson's own build, a lean, slightly sallow face.His face was sallow, his lips curled down in a perpetual sulk.The imam still bore the mark of that experience in his gaunt frame and sallow, jaundiced complexion.The drip, drip of winter skis propped up outside rooms have left their their sallow mark.The woman was slightly fat, with loose sallow skin and a slow and uneven gait.He has lost weight and there is a new darkening in the sallow skin beneath his eyes.sallow face/skin/complexionHe had a bony, tortured face, angry, slanting peacock-blue eyes, bronze curls and a sallow complexion.He liked the look of the man - about Jackson's own build, a lean, slightly sallow face.He was a man in his late twenties, dark and thin with a sallow complexion.The woman was slightly fat, with loose sallow skin and a slow and uneven gait.He has lost weight and there is a new darkening in the sallow skin beneath his eyes.I stared up into the kind-eyed, sallow face of Catherine of Aragon.
Origin sallow Old English salu
sal·low adjectiveChineseSyllable
sallow Corpus yellow slightly unhealthy and looks skin


sallow
sallow /ˈsæləʊ $ -loʊ/ adjective
 Language: Old English
 Origin: salu
sallow skin looks slightly yellow and unhealthy
    sallow face/skin/complexion
    a woman with dark hair and a sallow complexion
—sallowness noun [uncountable]


sal·lowBrE /ˈsæləʊ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈsæloʊ/ 🔊 adjective(of a person's skin or face 人的皮肤或面色) having a slightly yellow colour that does not look healthy 灰黄的;蜡黄的 SYN pasty2
sal·lowBrE /ˈsæləʊ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈsæloʊ/ 🔊 nouna type of willow tree that does not grow very tall 黄华柳