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  • n  unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)

  • There's an audible shiver as they first spy the teen vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), his impossibly gorgeous face caked in a mime's pallor, sitting in biology class next .
  • Her pallor was an attitude, a sort of trance.
  • Napoleon III, unable to sit a horse (because of bladder trouble), his face rouged (to conceal his deathly pallor from his troops), followed close behind General MacMahon's .
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  • Max Ernst in Irish Times
    It is the naked portrait of a ruin who was once a genius,Max Ernst wrote in 1946. "A weak, totally asexual body, falling cheeks and the pallor of a man who is already almost dead. There is something very convincing in this portrait, as if...

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