单词 | tallow-face |
释义 | tallow-facen. Now rare or Obsolete. A pale, yellowish-white face; hence, a person having such a face: a term of contempt. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [noun] > of face wana1300 ashc1374 tallow-face1597 whey countenance1604 lily1713 suet face1896 the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [noun] > person tallow-face1597 smock-face1605 whey facea1616 light-skin1935 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. v. 157 Out you..baggage, out you tallow face . View more context for this quotation c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) v. 2237 O, 'tis Fumoso with the tallow face. 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 127 The entrance..neer which is hung a mirrour whether to admire their tallow faces in, or internal deformities, I know not. Derivatives ˈtallow-faced adj. having a tallow-face. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [adjective] 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 1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. C4 The Paynters coulde not..make away theyr Vermiglion, if tallowe faced whoores vsde it not for their cheekes. 1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) iii. ii. iii. 477 Every Louer admires his mistris, though she bee..pale, red, yellow, tan'd, tollow-faced. 1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 446 A deformed, thin, tallow-faced fellow, he looks like a Ghost. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island ii. viii. 63 It was the tallow-faced man. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < n.1592 |
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