(of a person’s skin or face )人的皮肤或面色 having a slightly yellow colour that does not look healthy synonym pasty2灰黄的;蜡黄的 He was a small man with a thin sallow face. 他是一个瘦小的男人,有一张瘦削的蜡黄的脸。 a sallow complexion 蜡黄的脸色
Oxford Collocations DictionarySallow is used with these nouns:- complexion
- face
- skin
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Word Originadjective Old English salo ‘dusky’, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse sǫlr ‘yellow’, from a base meaning ‘dirty’.