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Dusky vs Pallor - What's the difference?

dusky | pallor |

As nouns the difference between dusky and pallor

is that dusky is a dusky shark while pallor is paleness; want of color; pallidity.

As an adjective dusky

is dimly lit, as at dusk (evening).

dusky

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening).
    • I like it when it is dusky , just before the street lights come on.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=1 citation , passage=A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.}}
  • A shade of color that is rather dark.
    • The dusky rose was of a muted color, not clashing with any of the other colors.
  • (dated) dark-skinned
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  • :* In the raw attempt to apply the perfected institutions of Anglo-Saxon civilization to the descendants of the dusky races which inhabited Mexico before the discovery of America by Columbus, the Mexican statesmen of 1824 put the principles of democratic government to a terrible ordeal.
  • ashen, greyish skin coloration
    • This man in shock has a silver colored dusky skin tone.

    Noun

    (duskies)
  • A dusky shark.
  • A dusky dolphin.

    • pallor

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pallour

    Noun

    (pallors)
  • Paleness; want of color; pallidity.
    • pallor of the complexion
  • *1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
  • *:"Sir," said the butler, turning to a sort of mottled pallor , "that thing was not my master, and there's the truth. My master"--here he looked round him and began to whisper--"is a tall, fine build of a man, and this was more of a dwarf."

    • External links

    * (wikipedia "pallor")

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