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light-skin

light-skin is the alternative form of lightskin.

Meaning of lightskin

Noun

lightskin (plural lightskins)

  1. A black, mixed race, Indigenous, Latino, or other person of color who has relatively light-coloured skin.
    • A man who is getting ahead tends to seek a lighter mate, and because “a good man is hard to find,” it would be difficult for a lightskin girl consistently to reject darker people. A darker man who offers security, through social position and other advantages, may well be preferred to a lightskin...1941, W. Lloyd Warner, Buford H. Junker, Walter A. Adams, “Lightskin Women”, in Color and Human Nature: Negro Personality Development in a Northern City, Washington, D.C.: American Council on...
    Synonyms:
    fair-skinned
    Antonyms:
    darkskin

Forms of light-skin

plurallight-skins

Questions about light-skin

What is light-skin the alternative form of?
Light-skin is the alternative form of lightskin.

Words near light-skin in the dictionary

  1. light-scattering photometry
  2. light-sensitive
  3. light-ship
  4. light-ships
  5. light-shot
  6. light-skin
  7. light-skinned
  8. light-skins
  9. light-skirt
  10. light-skirts
  11. light-spirited

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