Both Uses
sallow
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The Return of the King
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- He was a lean, starved, haggard thing, all bones and tight-drawn sallow skin.†
Chpt 6.3 *
- When they reached The Green Dragon, the last house on the Hobbiton side, now lifeless and with broken windows, they were disturbed to see half a dozen large ill-favoured Men lounging against the inn-wall; they were squint-eyed and sallow-faced.†
Chpt 6.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(sallow as in: a sallow complexion) an unhealthy pale of yellowish complexion; or to cause such a complexion
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)