sallow

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of a sickly pale colour.

   “Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine Hath wash’d thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!”

2. sıfat Of a tan colour, associated with people from southern Europe or East Asia.

   “The girls are mostly Slavic-pretty, long-limbed with high cheekbones, sallow skin and green eyes. They are the closest thing to supermodels that Mulhuddart has ever seen.”

3. sıfat Having skin (especially on the face) of a sickly pale colour.

   “Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. You will become sallow, and hollow-cheeked, and dull-eyed.”

4. sıfat Having a similar pale, yellowish colour.

   “The terrible descriptions were so real and vivid, that the sallow pages seemed to turn red with gore […]”

5. sıfat Foul; murky; sickly.

   “Mr. President, the sallow air of our cities, the blackened sands of our seashores, our lakes and harbors reeking of sewage and depleted of oxygen are but a part of the sad legacy of the idea that nature can be treated as a servant, blindly obedient to every want, whim or pleasure of man.”

6. fiil To become sallow.

   “The tan of his sunburnt face and hands contrasted sadly with the sallowing skin of the girl-wife, who, despite his care, was sinking under her task of son-bearing.”

7. fiil To cause (someone or something) to become sallow.

   “But would a pretender carry his or her cunning to the extreme of fortifying the manuscript in every possible way against the sallowing touch of time[…]?”

8. isim A European willow, Salix caprea, that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood.

   “c. 1553, Humphrey Llwyd (translator), The Treasury of Healthe, London: William Coplande, Remedies, Chapter 44, I[f] a man eate the flowers of a sallow or wyllowe tree, or of a Poplet tree, they wyl make cold al the heate of carnall lust in hym.”

9. isim A willow twig or branch.

   “Who-so that buildeth his hous al of salwes, And priketh his blinde hors over the falwes, And suffreth his wyf to go seken halwes, Is worthy to been hanged on the galwes!”