complection

American  

[kuhm-plek-shuhn] / kəmˈplɛk ʃən /

noun

1. complexion.

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Etymology

Origin of complection

By misanalysis; see complected

Example Sentences

On entering the room, through all the dead white of her present complection, she blushed to a crimson.

From A Simple Story by Strachey, G. L.

They are a people of a small stature, well shaped, of an olive complection, with black hair, in behaviour very civil, they have little clothes, except about their waists, notwithstanding the climate is very cold.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

She was," he says, "of an ordinary stature, not too fat, her mien was majestic, her eyes full, her face was oval, and her complection was delicate and extremely fair.

From Women of England by James, Bartlett Burleigh

Be garr, dis Earle be de chollericke complection, almost skipshack, be garr: he no point staie for one place.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

By the complection of some part of the news which has transpired through the New York papers, it seems probable that this insidious era in the British politics is beginning to make its appearance.

From Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): the American Crisis by Conway, Moncure Daniel