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Tallowy

Tallowy \Tal"low*y\, a. Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy.

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tallowy

a. Resembling tallow.

Usage examples of "tallowy".

They could see one another clearly now, each gone tallowy and strange with fear.

She dressed and went downstairs by the light of her single-dipped candle, used to the unpleasant tallowy smell.

The climb was steep, though, and there was no banister, just the edges of the stairwell groove itself, wobbling up and down from ankle to shoulder height and back again as it passed through the tallowy features of the rock face.

Jones had attempted to command some attention by wearing his tallowy hair in lank and ragged strands that flopped almost to his shoulders as he made his way across to the duke-box.

Turnberry brought his reluctant feet, his shaking hands, and his tallowy face into the room and across the floor.

His features were obscured by wrinkles and folds of sagging, tallowy skin.