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tallow-faced

tallow-faced adjective: having a pasty or sickly yellowish complexion.

Adjective

tallow-faced (comparative more tallow-faced, superlative most tallow-faced)

  1. Having a pasty or sickly yellowish complexion.

Forms of tallow-faced

comparativemore tallow-faced
superlativemost tallow-faced

Questions about tallow-faced

What does tallow-faced mean?
Tallow-faced means having a pasty or sickly yellowish complexion.
What part of speech is tallow-faced?
Tallow-faced is an adjective.

Words near tallow-faced in the dictionary

  1. tallow gourds
  2. tallow tree
  3. tallow trees
  4. tallow wood
  5. tallow woods
  6. tallow-faced
  7. tallow-wood
  8. tallow-woods
  9. tallowate
  10. tallowberries
  11. tallowberry

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