Fallow vs Sallow - What's the difference?
fallow | sallow |
(agriculture, uncountable) Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
(agriculture, uncountable) Uncultivated land.
(agriculture, obsolete, countable) An area of fallow land.
The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.
* Sinclair
(of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
Inactive; undeveloped.
Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
(lb) Yellowish skin colour.
# Of a sickly pale colour.
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#*: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.
#(lb) Of a tan colour, associated with people from southern Europe or East Asia.
#*2007 , David McWilliams, "
#*: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.
#*2012 , Aisling, "
#*:A yellow undertone is often found on people with sallow skin – e.g. Asian.
#*2012 , Billy Keane, "
#*:She had such lovely sallow skin, the handsome high cheekbones of the north with the brown conker-colour eyes and the dark silken hair.
Dirty; murky.
A European willow, Salix caprea , that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood.
*1819 , Keats, :
*:Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
*:Among the river sallows , borne aloft
*:Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
Willow twigs.
* (and other bibliographic details) Fawkes
* (and other bibliographic details) Emerson
As nouns the difference between fallow and sallow
is that fallow is (agriculture|uncountable) ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year while sallow is a european willow, salix caprea , that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood.As adjectives the difference between fallow and sallow
is that fallow is (of agricultural land) ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season or fallow can be of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun while sallow is (lb) yellowish skin colour .As a verb fallow
is to make land fallow for agricultural purposes.fallow
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) falow, from (etyl) ).Noun
- By a complete summer fallow', land is rendered tender and mellow. The ' fallow gives it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow crop.
Derived terms
* bastard fallow * cropped fallow * dead-fallow * ecofallow * fallow-break * fallow chat * fallow crop * fallow-field * fallow finch * fallow ground * fallowist * fallow land * green fallow * pin-fallow * rag-fallow * summer fallow * winter fallowAdjective
(head)Derived terms
* apple-fallow * fallow chat * fallow finch * fallowness * lay fallow * lie fallowDerived terms
* fallowed * fallowing * re-fallow * thry-fallow * trifallow * twifallow, twyfallowEtymology 2
From (etyl) falwe, from (etyl) fealu, from (etyl) 'pale'.Adjective
(en adjective)- a fallow deer or greyhound
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References
* English terms with multiple etymologiessallow
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) salowe, from (etyl) salu, from (etyl) ).Adjective
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) salwe, from (etyl) sealh, from (etyl) (compare Welsh helyg, Latin salix), probably originally a borrowing from some other language.Noun
(wikipedia sallow) (en noun)- Bend the pliant sallow to a shield.
- The sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb.
