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UK
/pˈælɐ/
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NOUN
- unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
How To Use pallor In A Sentence
- It is an uncomfortable feeling to find in her sickness the conventions of beauty - boniness and pallor.
- When I was a baby, my eyes were as black as my hair and I recall my brothers calling me sickly for my pale pallor, though I was never ill.
- He also took to donning a white greasepaint visage, designed to mimic the pallor of 13 th-century plague victims.
- Whitman has produced music that (particularly as a collection) neither fetishizes the scholarly pallor of early electronic music nor attempts to radically recast the tools or to play clever games with them.
- At his watchful distance, her pallor was a beacon, a broadcast resonance. The Best American Erotica 2006
- Her skin had a ghastly gray pallor, with dark smudges of sleeplessness under her eyes.
- Every size and color of the human spectrum was represented: young and old; men and women; black, white, and brown; bloated and emaciated; tattooed and unscarred; hairy and bald; well-endowed and not—all lying stiffly in the pale pallor of death. Law of Attraction
- Her pallor that morning refined the indubious coarseness of her face, and changed vulgarity into the attractive originality of a spirited character. London River
- It's easy to dismiss Peake's visual output as indulgent gothic fantasy; and indeed his images set the tone for so many subsequent cliches of the genre: the emaciated pallor of his somnambulistic protagonists, the obsessive detailing and filigree patterning of his graphic mannerisms, the too easy reliance on grotesque distortions. This week's new exhibitions
- So I noticed," Dundee nodded, recalling the deathly pallor of the girl's face as Sprague had glibly explained away that damning note and all its implications. Murder at Bridge