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# sallow

«sallow» in Mova's school dictionary: **Of skin, yellowish and pale, often looking unwell** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (sallow, sallower, sallowest)

### meaning for a pupil

Of skin, yellowish and pale, often looking unwell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sallow/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a pale, tired face in a tale, such as a sick girl or a worried man

### examples

- She had a sallow face after the long winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sallow/#x1)
- The girls had long faces and sallow complexions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sallow/#x2)
- His sallow skin showed he was ill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sallow/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sallow» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sallow/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.