† wannyadj.
Obsolete.
Wan, pallid.
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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
the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > [adjective] > pale
blackeOE
blokec1200
blakec1275
fadec1290
bleykea1300
palisha1398
wanned1494
ashy?1541
wearish-coloured1548
wanny1555
wheyish1560
bleak1566
paly1568
ghastly1574
blankish1580
sick1599
palled1601
ashied1613
lurid1656
lunar1742
wax-like1748
ashen1808
unbrightened1827
waxy1835
peely-wally1895
waxen-hued1916
1555 R. Eden tr. P. Giovio Libellus de legatione Basilii in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 282 With flatte visagies, pale and wannye coloure.
1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Medea iv. f. 40 In fayntyng face wyth pale and wannye whyght The sanguyne hew exyled thence is fled.
1594 Willobie his Auisa xvi. f. 16v Your wannie cheekes, your shaggie lockes.
1596 A. Munday tr. 1st Pt. Palmerin of Eng. xii A pale and wanny face.
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