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Pallor vs Blanched - What's the difference?

pallor | blanched |

As a noun pallor

is paleness; want of color; pallidity.

As an adjective blanched is

lacking complexion or color.

As a verb blanched is

past tense of blanch.

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."
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    blanched

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • lacking complexion or color
  • bleached
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (blanch)