The Collaborative International Dictionary
light-skinned \light-skinned\ adj. having skin of a light colored hue. [Narrower terms: {white (vs. black) ] WordNet 1.5]
WordNet
adj. having little skin pigmentation
Usage examples of "light-skinned".
I heard stories of skaters who'd fallen and been cooked up with the batter, dark-skinned men who'd been mistaken for raisins, light-skinned ones, for blanched almonds.
The desk is a rich mahogany, the seats leather, the oak-paneled walls covered with pictures of a younger Virgil Claypool playing cricket and sailing on his yacht with his light-skinned family.
Just three relict groups of hunter-gatherers—the Semang Negritos of the Malay Peninsula, the Andaman Islanders, and the Veddoid Negritos of Sri Lanka—remain to suggest that tropical Southeast Asia’s former inhabitants may have been dark-skinned and curly-haired, like modern New Guineans and unlike the light-skinned, straight-haired South Chinese and the modern tropical Southeast Asians who are their offshoots.
Just three relict groups of hunter-gatherers--the Semang Negritos of the Malay Peninsula, the Andaman Islanders, and the Veddoid Negritos of Sri Lanka--remain to suggest that tropical Southeast Asia's former inhabitants may have been dark-skinned and curly-haired, like modern New Guineans and unlike the light-skinned, straight-haired South Chinese and the modern tropical Southeast Asians who are their offshoots.
Storm, the white-haired, light-skinned black woman who expresses almost no personality and is used, rather slavishly, as a weapon --they are all conservative emblems, symbols frequently employed (whether cynically or sincerely) to denote the forces of restrictiveness, to make the state of restriction seem cozy and attractive.
From Davor, now a third-year at the Academy, to Gossin—her nose wrinkled at the thought of trying to work with Gossin, who was one of the rare light-skinned Serranos (though that was only the most obvious of her problems)—the list included nineteen—no, seventeen, because Heris's parents had just retired.
From Davor, now a third-year at the Academy, to Gossinher nose wrinkled at the thought of trying to work with Gossin, who was one of the rare light-skinned Serranos (though that was only the most obvious of her problems)the list included nineteenno, seventeen, because Heris's parents had just retired.