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complexionless

American  
[kuhm-plek-shuhn-lis] / kəmˈplɛk ʃən lɪs /

adjective

  1. lacking in usual color; wan.

Etymology

Origin of complexionless

First recorded in 1855–60; complexion + -less

Example Sentences

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He was tall and thin, with a smooth complexionless face, but to the master's astonishment he had the blue gray eye of the higher or Castilian type of native Californian.

From Trent's Trust, and Other Stories by Harte, Bret

My heart beat high; for, in those four male personages, although complexionless and eyebrowless, I beheld four subjects of the Family P. Salcy. 

From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles

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