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Meanings of pallor in English
Portuguese
palidez Unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
Synonyms
Examples for "paleness"
Examples for "paleness"
1
The faces of the band boys had become of a yellowish paleness.
2
The flush in the girl's sweet face faded into a deadly paleness.
3
Perhaps it was the moon which lent her paleness to his countenance.
4
The paleness of his cheek, and the frequent sigh, expressed his sorrow.
5
The paleness becomes extreme, the skin often having a lemon yellow tint.
1
Blanching only occurs for a matter of hours after lividity first develops.
2
Post mortem, cadaveric lividity is well marked, especially in nose, lips, ears, etc.
3
He was simply beside her inside a breath, lividity raging in his expression.
4
She looked at it closer, mentally conjuring Allegra's similar lividity.
5
Prelim, twelve to fourteen hours based on temp and lividity.
1
There appeared a wanness in the night, and Helena felt inexpressibly dreary.
2
Helena wanted the day-wanness to be quite wiped off the west.
3
Such, then, is the cause of the wanness of my complexion.
4
To this was added a certain wanness and air of fatigue.
5
It was the last phase, the feebleness, the wanness, the inertia!
1
He raises his eyes and beholds only the lividness of the clouds.
2
My sister's well-known and beloved features could not be concealed by convulsion or lividness.
3
The assistants' faces were then given that spectral lividness that the imagination ascribes to phantoms.
4
A blackness passing to lividness crossed his face.
5
An awful lividness stole over his face.
1
The pallidness of her face had departed.
2
His co-voyageur was without curiosity; the former pallidness and silentness resumed their dominion over him, and the lesser gentleman settled moodily back to his newspaper.
3
'If I was, I'd knock some of the pallidness off of your marble brow.
4
'-Thepallidness of his countenance expressed very strongly the danger of perishing in which he had felt himself.
1
Beyond the window, the lightning flashed with an awful luridness upon the rushing hail.
2
The luridness of war was over everything.
3
The clinical mood of the video is intentional, in order to remove anything associated with luridness or pornography.
Usage of pallor in English
1
Platonída Ivánovna did not like the pallor of his face in particular.
2
He noted the pallor in her cheek, the dread in her eyes.
3
Her pallor was the pallor of death; the convulsions began once more.
4
Slowly the natural pallor returned to the high forehead and sharp features.
5
The face of the Southern leader was chalk white in its pallor.
6
The eyes are wild, eager; the complexion is of a gray pallor.
7
The pallor and dazed expression of the employees tell the same tale.
8
Joseph noticed his pallor change and placed his hand on Bestion's arm.
9
The freckles looked browner than ever against the pallor of the skin.
10
A bloom of exquisite rose grew in the pallor of her cheeks.
11
His face in the moonlight showed a pallor and fixity inexpressibly distressing.
12
Hence his pallor and nervousness-hissleepless night and agitation in the morning.
13
It was the drawn look in his face, and its strange pallor.
14
Dr. Bates suddenly was struck by the pallor in the drawn face.
15
Her eyes looked positively enormous set in the pallor of her face.
16
Not in the clear ivory pallor of complexion did her charm lie.
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Pallor through the time
Pallor across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common