tallow-facen.
Now rare or Obsolete.
A pale, yellowish-white face; hence, a person having such a face: a term of contempt.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [noun] > of face
wana1300
ashc1374
tallow-face1597
whey countenance1604
lily1713
suet face1896
the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [noun] > person
tallow-face1597
smock-face1605
whey facea1616
light-skin1935
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. v. 157 Out you..baggage, out you tallow face . View more context for this quotation
c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) v. 2237 O, 'tis Fumoso with the tallow face.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 127 The entrance..neer which is hung a mirrour whether to admire their tallow faces in, or internal deformities, I know not.
Derivatives
ˈtallow-faced adj. having a tallow-face.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [adjective]
blatec1000
whiteOE
greena1275
blakec1275
bleykea1300
wana1300
palec1330
bleach1340
pale and wan (wan and pale)c1374
colourlessc1380
deadlyc1385
deadc1386
bloodlessc1450
earthlyc1460
ruddylessc1460
wan visaged?a1513
wanny1555
as pale or white as a clout1557
bleak1566
mealy1566
pale-faced1570
ghastly1574
white-faced1577
bleakish1581
pallid1590
whiggish1590
tallow-faced1592
maid-pale1597
lily1600
whey-colour1602
lew1611
roseless1611
Hippocratical1615
cadaverousa1661
Hippocratic1681
smock-faced1684
white-looked1690
livid1728
as white (or pale) as a sheet1752
squalid1753
deathly1791
etiolated1791
light-skinned1802
suety1803
shilpit1813
blanched1828
tallowy1830
suet-faced1834
pasty1836
tallowish1838
whey-faced1847
pasty-faced1848
aghast1850
waxen1853
complexionless1863
light-skin1877
lily-cheeked1877
lardy1879
wan-faced1881
exsanguinous1889
wheatish1950
1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. C4 The Paynters coulde not..make away theyr Vermiglion, if tallowe faced whoores vsde it not for their cheekes.
1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) iii. ii. iii. 477 Every Louer admires his mistris, though she bee..pale, red, yellow, tan'd, tollow-faced.
1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 446 A deformed, thin, tallow-faced fellow, he looks like a Ghost.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island ii. viii. 63 It was the tallow-faced man.
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