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palish

/pey-lish/US // ˈpeɪ lɪʃ //UK // (ˈpeɪlɪʃ) //

苍白的,苍白,悸动,苍蝇

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : somewhat pale.

Examples

  • The skin is yellow, the fruit of a palish red, and rather mealy.

  • It was a bare room, wainscoted round the walls a few inches up, papered beyond in some common palish pattern.

  • The blood of life is in your veins; you haven't got the sickly, palish look that the girls have who stay indoors half the time.

  • "Not if Mr. Severne has something more attractive," said she, turning palish and pinkish by turns.

  • He was parchment-like and palish from sitting night after night and night after night over a sounder.