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sallow
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sallow
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sallow complexion (=slightly yellow)
▪ A sallow complexion can be a sign of illness.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
complexion
▪ He had a bony, tortured face, angry, slanting peacock-blue eyes, bronze curls and a sallow complexion.
▪ He was a man in his late twenties, dark and thin with a sallow complexion.
face
▪ He liked the look of the man - about Jackson's own build, a lean, slightly sallow face.
▪ I stared up into the kind-eyed, sallow face of Catherine of Aragon.
skin
▪ He has lost weight and there is a new darkening in the sallow skin beneath his eyes.
▪ The woman was slightly fat, with loose sallow skin and a slow and uneven gait.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He has lost weight and there is a new darkening in the sallow skin beneath his eyes.
▪ 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 drip, drip of winter skis propped up outside rooms have left their their sallow mark.
▪ The imam still bore the mark of that experience in his gaunt frame and sallow, jaundiced complexion.
▪ The woman was slightly fat, with loose sallow skin and a slow and uneven gait.
▪ Would Andrew Cartboy, so tiny and sallow, become a Dynmouth Hard?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sallow

Sallow \Sal"low\ (s[a^]l"l[-o]), n. [OE. salwe, AS. sealh; akin to OHG. salaha, G. salweide, Icel. selja, L. salix, Ir. sail, saileach, Gael. seileach, W. helyg, Gr. "eli`kh.]

  1. The willow; willow twigs. [Poetic]
    --Tennyson.

    And bend the pliant sallow to a shield.
    --Fawkes.

    The sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb.
    --Emerson.

  2. (Bot.) A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S. cinerea, etc.

    Sallow thorn (Bot.), a European thorny shrub ( Hippophae rhamnoides) much like an El[ae]agnus. The yellow berries are sometimes used for making jelly, and the plant affords a yellow dye.

Sallow

Sallow \Sal"low\, v. t. To tinge with sallowness. [Poetic]

July breathes hot, sallows the crispy fields.
--Lowell.

Sallow

Sallow \Sal"low\, a. [Compar. Sallower; superl. Sallowest.] [AS. salu; akin to D. zaluw, OHG. salo, Icel. s["o]lr yellow.] Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin.
--Shak.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sallow

"shrubby willow plant," Old English sealh (Anglian salh), from Proto-Germanic *salhjon (cognates: Old Norse selja, Old High German salaha, and first element in German compound Salweide), from PIE *sal(i)k- "willow" (cognates: Latin salix "willow," Middle Irish sail, Welsh helygen, Breton halegen "willow"). French saule "willow" is from Frankish salha, from the Germanic root. Used in Palm Sunday processions and decorations in England before the importing of real palm leaves began.

sallow

Old English salo "dusky, dark" (related to sol "dark, dirty"), from Proto-Germanic *salwa- (cognates: Middle Dutch salu "discolored, dirty," Old High German salo "dirty gray," Old Norse sölr "dirty yellow"), from PIE root *sal- "dirty, gray" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic slavojocije "grayish-blue color," Russian solovoj "cream-colored"). Related: Sallowness.

Wiktionary
sallow

Etymology 1 a. 1 (lb en heading) ''Yellowish skin colour.'' 2 #(lb en most regions of Caucasian skin) Of a sickly pale colour. 3 #(lb en Ireland) Of a tan colour, associated with people from southern Europe or East Asia. 4 dirty; murky. Etymology 2

n. 1 A European willow, ''Salix caprea'', that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood. 2 Willow twigs.

WordNet
sallow

  1. adj. unhealthy looking [syn: sickly]

  2. n. any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal

sallow

v. cause to become sallow; "The illness has sallowed her face"

Usage examples of "sallow".

There are, furthermore, the accompanying symptoms of a coated tongue, bitter taste in the mouth, unpleasant eructations, scalding of the throat from regurgitation, offensive breath, sick headache, giddiness, disturbed sleep, sallow countenance, heart-burn, morbid craving after food, constant anxiety and apprehension, fancied impotency, and fickleness.

The characteristics of this form of idiocy are an enlarged thyroid gland constituting a goitre or bronchocele, a high-arched palate, dwarfed stature, squinting eyes, sallow complexion, small legs, conical head, large mouth, and indistinct speech.

The portal creaked inward and faces peered out, sallow in the glow of cheap tallow dips, or brosy with drink and primed to proffer lewd comment.

Small, sallow, mussed as the weekend approaches, Tommy Molto bleats the name when I tell the prosecution to call its next witness, as we settle in after lunch.

The sallow complexion of Myrus the Mneiodes had become darker as Ramus Ymph spoke, and eventually achieved the color of damp clay.

Not a face belonging to The Shadow, but the sallow, rattish visage of Snipe Shailey!

The sound welled unbidden from her throat, a rich low outpouring of love and sympathy for the sallow twitching youth who lay on the yellowish sheets, his eyes wild, his hands tensing into claws.

I treated the wound with whortleberry and sallow bark, but it is deep and I am afraid.

MEETING PLACE was in the sallows, the willow thickets down by the Amia as it ran below the smithy.

The other was Cripp, the sallow chauffeur, who was ordinarily the only man who left the Beaverwood grounds.

But his face is sallow and his eyes apparently drained of tears, and his expression seems blanker than anything else.

If you have a sallow skin tone, it usually indicates that blood flow is constricted in the skin and also in the cardiovascular system.

Strapped into a chair, the official looked an habitually sad type: a sallow, slightly porcine individual, drably dressed.

His eyen hollow, grisly to behold, His hue sallow, and pale as ashes cold, And solitary he was, ever alone, And wailing all the night, making his moan.

During the day he would sometimes run into one of the African students, a short Malian boy with sallow skin, and they would nod to each other.