Ashen
['æʃ(ə)n] or ['æʃən]
Definition
(adj.) anemic looking from illness or emotion; 'a face turned ashen'; 'the invalid's blanched cheeks'; 'tried to speak with bloodless lips'; 'a face livid with shock'; 'lips...livid with the hue of death'- Mary W. Shelley; 'lips white with terror'; 'a face white with rage' .
(adj.) made of wood of the ash tree .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the ash tree.
(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.
(n.) obs. pl. for Ashes.
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Examples
- No answer; no sign of recognition; but a faint pink colour returned to her lips, although the rest of her face was ashen pale. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I looked spectral; my eyes larger and more hollow, my hair darker than was natural, by contrast with my thin and ashen face. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- His father lay grey and ashen on the bed, a nurse moved silently in her white dress, neat and elegant, even beautiful. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She stared at him with an ashen face and gulped twice before she could speak. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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