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pal·lor

[pal-er]
noun
unusual or extreme paleness, as from fear, ill health, or death; wanness.

Origin:
1650–60; < Latin: paleness, equivalent to pall(ēre) to be pale + -or -or1

pale, pail, pall, pallor (see synonym note at pale1).
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Example Sentences
  • Tan, with a tummy enviably toned in little rolls, he wanted to gloat over my city-induced pallor.
  • Low blood pressure (hypotension), fast heart rate (tachycardia) and pallor are all typically present.
  • You wouldn't know it from my carefully cultivated pallor.
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pallor (ˈpælə)
 
n
a pale condition, esp when unnatural: fear gave his face a deathly pallor
 
[C17: from Latin: whiteness (of the skin), from pallēre to be pale1]

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pallor
c.1400, from O.Fr. palor "paleness," from L. pallor, from pallere "be pale," related to pallus "dark-colored, dusky," from PIE base *pel- "dark-colored, gray" (cf. Skt. palitah "gray," panduh "whitish, pale," Gk. pelios "livid," polios "gray," O.E. fealo "dull-colored, yellow, brown").
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pallor pal·lor (pāl'ər)
n.
Paleness, as of the skin.

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