The Only Use
pallid
in
Brave New World
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- Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory.†
p. 3.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(pallid) abnormally pale (lacking healthy skin color); or anything that lacks energy or liveliness
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)