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Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
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- The sunshine came through the window, between the heavy festoons of two faded damask curtains, and fell directly across this vase; so that a mild splendor was reflected from it on the ashen visages of the five old people who sat around.†
ashen = very pale
- There was a healthful suffusion on their cheeks, instead of the ashen hue that had made them look so corpse-like.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(ashen as in: ashen face) very pale - often due to illness or fear
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, ashen can refer to a color that is light-gray like the color of ashes.