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单词 pale as death
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pale as death
a. Of a person, a person's complexion, etc.: of a whitish or ashen appearance; lacking healthy colour; pallid, wan, bloodless (typically connoting shock, strong emotion, or ill health). Frequently in pale as death.
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blatec1000
whiteOE
greena1275
blakec1275
bleykea1300
wana1300
palec1330
bleach1340
pale and wan (wan and pale)c1374
colourlessc1380
deadlyc1385
deadc1386
bloodlessc1450
earthlyc1460
ruddylessc1460
wan visaged?a1513
wanny1555
as pale or white as a clout1557
bleak1566
mealy1566
pale-faced1570
ghastly1574
white-faced1577
bleakish1581
pallid1590
whiggish1590
tallow-faced1592
maid-pale1597
lily1600
whey-colour1602
lew1611
roseless1611
Hippocratical1615
cadaverousa1661
Hippocratic1681
smock-faced1684
white-looked1690
livid1728
as white (or pale) as a sheet1752
squalid1753
deathly1791
etiolated1791
light-skinned1802
suety1803
shilpit1813
blanched1828
tallowy1830
suet-faced1834
pasty1836
tallowish1838
whey-faced1847
pasty-faced1848
aghast1850
waxen1853
complexionless1863
light-skin1877
lily-cheeked1877
lardy1879
wan-faced1881
exsanguinous1889
wheatish1950
c1330 Gregorius (Auch.) (1914) 732 Þe hewe þat he haþ þan opon, It is boþ wan and pale.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 881 (MED) He cast al his colour and bi-com pale.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 24004 (MED) Ful pale [v.r. pal] wex al mi hide.
c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 866 Pale as box she was.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 565 Behaldand his paill face. He kyssyt him.
1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (v.) f. 69 Then was ye kynges face paal and his cogitacions so ferefully troubled him that [etc.].
1596 A. Copley Fig for Fortune 10 All her body was as pale as death.
1638 C. Alleyn Hist. Henrie VII 114 They who yet survive are Pale with feare.
1696 Alcander & Philocrates iii. 69 Those pale and livid Lips..which your many Children will without doubt bring you.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 23. ⁋2 The Man grew pale as Ashes.
1796 F. Burney Camilla V. x. i. 264 With a voice hollow from affright, and a face pale as death, she tremulously articulated, ‘where is my sister?’
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 54 The Fair Maid of Perth's complexion changed from red to pale, and from pale to red.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. i. 436 Then pale as privet, took she heart to drink.
1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers v. 87 She was pale now with emotion and anxiety.
1973 J. G. Farrell Siege of Krishnapur ii. 16 She was very fair and pale and a little remote; one or two people thought her ‘insipid’.
1988 G. Greene Captain & Enemy i. 11 I had seen her on her deathbed, pale and calm, like a figure on a tomb.
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