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sallow (noun, adjective):
noun
: any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark
adjective
: of a greyish greenish yellow color
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology :In Oscar Wilde’s 1891 novel A Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian’s unscrupulous friend Lord Henry Wotton impresses upon the young Dorian what the process of aging will do, saying “Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. You will become sallow, and hollow-cheeked, and dull-eyed.” Literature of the 19th century abounds with sallow people—Charles Dickens applied the word to characters in no fewer than 12 novels—but the word had been in use with the same meaning for centuries before that literary heyday. Its synonymous Old English forbear is salu, which shares an ancestor with an Old High German word meaning “murky” as well as with a Russian word meaning “yellowish grey.”
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