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adj. - Slightly pale.

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Usage examples (28)
  • These blossoms are a palish purple, but sometimes the potato flowers are white.
  • 'Madam looks palish,' he observed to Johnnie, who was escorting him about; 'I doubt she's not very hearty yet.'
  • He glanced swiftly around him like one half afraid, and Gertie saw he looked palish, as if he had been sick or some time indoors.
  • 'I think her face has a palish cast too much on the delicate order.'
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