LekhoriLekhoriYellowish.
Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine Hath wash’d thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!
Having skin (especially on the face) of a sickly pale colour.
Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. You will become sallow, and hollow-cheeked, and dull-eyed.
Having a similar pale, yellowish colour.
The terrible descriptions were so real and vivid, that the sallow pages seemed to turn red with gore […]
To become sallow.
The tan of his sunburnt face and hands contrasted sadly with the sallowing skin of the girl-wife, who, despite his care, was sinking under her task of son-bearing.
A European willow, Salix caprea, that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood.
c. 1553, Humphrey Llwyd (translator), The Treasury of Healthe, London: William Coplande, Remedies, Chapter 44, I[f] a man eate the flowers of a sallow or wyllowe tree, or of a Poplet tree, they wyl make cold al the heate of carnall lust in hym.
From Middle English salowe, from Old English salu, from Proto-West Germanic *salu, from Proto-Germanic *salwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *selH-. See also Dutch zaluw, dialectal German sal; also Irish ...
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To cause (someone or something) to become sallow.
A willow twig or branch.
Who-so that buildeth his hous al of salwes, And priketh his blinde hors over the falwes, And suffreth his wyf to go seken halwes, Is worthy to been hanged on the galwes!