单词 | pallor |
释义 | pallorn. Paleness or pallidness, esp. of the face. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.c1400 |
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