All 3 Uses of
sallow
in
Catch-22
- It was Michaela, the skinny maid with the merry disposition and homely sallow face, and she was waking him up because he had a visitor waiting just outside the door.†
Chpt 16 *
- They were plainly out of the question, Yossarian explained adamantly to Sergeant Towser, whose sallow equine face was despondent as he informed Yossarian that the new officers would have to be admitted.†
Chpt 32
- She had sallow skin and myopic eyes, and none of the men had ever slept with her because none of the men had ever wanted to, none but Aarfy, who had raped her once that same evening and had then held her prisoner in a clothes closet for almost two hours with his hand over her mouth until the civilian curfew sirens sounded and it was unlawful for her to be outside.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(sallow as in: a sallow complexion) an unhealthy pale of yellowish complexion; or to cause such a complexion