Irish pallor
2021年07月07日
Irish pallor
Many faces on the streets still showed winter pallor.
— Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2021
: deficiency of color especially of the face : PALENESS
The boy's sickly pallor concerned his parents.
pallor
(pæləʳ)
SINGULAR NOUN
If you refer to the pallor of someone's face or skin, you mean that it is pale and unhealthy.
The deathly pallor of her skin had been replaced by the faintest flush of color. [+ of]
My face had a greenish pallor.
Synonyms: paleness, whiteness, lack of colour, wanness More Synonyms of pallor
The example I saw, of 'Irish pallor', was intended to be positive... but it seems the word itself isn't.
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