Both Uses
pallid
in
In Cold Blood
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- She is a tall, languid young lady with a pallid, oval face and beautiful pale-blue-gray eyes; her hands are extraordinary-long-fingered, flexible, nervously elegant.†
Chpt 1 *
- Hickock's uneven eyes turned toward a window in the visiting room; his face, puffy, pallid as a funeral lily, gleamed in the weak winter sunshine filtering through the bar-shrouded glass.†
Chpt 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)