Complexioned
[kəm'plekʃənd] or [kəm'plɛkʃənd]
Definition
(a.) Having (such) a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark-complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person.
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Examples
- Upon which demonstration, I saw the light-complexioned young Teuton, Heinrich Mühler, grow restless, as if he did not like it. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The man whom I found myself facing was a well built, fresh-complexioned young fellow, with a frank, honest face and a slight, crisp, yellow mustache. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- After taking the Diamond out of the bank, I fancied I was followed in the streets by a shabby, dark-complexioned man. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- My Aunt Ablewhite is a large, silent, fair-complexioned woman, with one noteworthy point in her character. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Mr. Serjeant Snubbins was a lantern-faced, sallow-complexioned man, of about five-and-forty, or--as the novels say--he might be fifty. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He might be forty years old; he was plain-looking, dark-complexioned, and already rather gray-haired. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Both were fair complexioned and slenderly made; both possessed faces full of distinction and intelligence. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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