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单词 pallor
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pallorn.

Brit. /ˈpalə/, U.S. /ˈpælər/
Forms: late Middle English 1800s– pallour, 1600s 1800s– pallor, 1800s– palor.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French pallor, palour; Latin pallor.
Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman pallor, pallur and Middle French palour (first half of the 12th cent. in Old French as pallor ; French pâleur ), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin pallor paleness < pallēre to be pale (see pallid adj.) + -or -or suffix.
Paleness or pallidness, esp. of the face.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [noun]
whitenessOE
wanness1382
pallorc1400
lewness1611
bloodlessness1646
exsanguinality1651
pallidness1661
pallidity1691
paledness1702
deadness1760
tallowiness1830
the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > [noun] > paleness
bleachc1050
palenessc1350
wanness1382
pallorc1400
whiteness?c1425
palea1547
lightness1552
albescence1742
sickness1849
c1400 Psalter (Trin. Dublin) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) lxvii. 14 (MED) Pallour [L. pallore; c1350 BL Add. þe lawe of þe last testament, þat hys, þe nywe, ben in palenes of gold, þat hys to saye, ben att þe wyl of God].
a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 100 (MED) And whan þei [sc. eyes] ben not moist but quaueryng, and with pallour medled, þat sheweth appoplexie.
1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty 42 There is some little change of the complexion from a greater degree of pallor, to a lesse.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Pallor, a pale colour, paleness, wanness.
1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby III. viii. vi. 247 Her natural pallor aggravated into a ghoul-like tint.
1885 M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird I. i. 8 It was a pretty little face, even in the pallor of death.
1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 90 His eyes, which were of bluish slate-colour, relieved his unhealthy pallor and shone out plainly above the orange tie he wore.
1988 S. Rosenberg Soviet Odyssey vi. 99 I could only listen with half an ear to what he was saying, his pallor and sunken cheeks tugging at my heart.

Compounds

pallor-dimmed adj.
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1857 J. L. Tupper Let. 18 Feb. in W. M. Rosetti Ruskin: Rossetti: Preraphaelitism (1899) 161 Pallor-dimmed frozen, nakedling!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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