Waxen vs Sallow - What's the difference?
waxen | sallow |
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Made of wax; covered with wax.
Of or pertaining to wax.
Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy.
(rare) Easily effaced, as if written in wax.
(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 adjectives the difference between waxen and sallow
is that waxen is (uk|dialectal) grown or waxen can be made of wax; covered with wax while sallow is (lb) yellowish skin colour .As a verb waxen
is .As a noun sallow is
a european willow, salix caprea , that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood.waxen
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) waxen, from (etyl) weaxen, . More at (l).Verb
(head)Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* waxen chatterer * waxen imagesallow
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.