sallow

kalventaa

paju

kalpea puhekieltä Yellowish.
puhekieltä Of a sickly pale colour.
(RQ:BLwnds TLdgr)

Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

The girls are mostly Slavic-pretty, long-limbed with high cheekbones, sallow skin and green eyes. They are the closest thing to supermodels that Mulhuddart has ever seen.

A yellow undertone is often found on people with sallow skin – e.g. Asian.

She had such lovely sallow skin, the handsome high cheekbones of the north with the brown conker-colour eyes and the dark silken hair.

Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn

Among the river sallows, borne aloft

Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;

Bend the pliant sallow to a shield.

The sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb.