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pallor

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pallor [′pal·ər]
(medicine)
Paleness, especially of the skin and mucous membranes.
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The startling contrast between the corpse-like pallor of her complexion and the overpowering life and light, the glittering metallic brightness in her large black eyes, held him literally spell-bound.
The Haunted Hotel by Collins, Wilkie View in context
It cannot well be doubted, that the one visible quality in the aspect of the dead which most appals the gazer, is the marble pallor lingering there; as if indeed that pallor were as much like the badge of consternation in the other world, as of mortal trepidation here.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
Suddenly he found himself confronted by a dreadful figure clad in a shroud, whose pallor and stony eyes smote him with a horrible apprehension.
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