0 (of white-skinned people) yellowish and looking unhealthy: --
a sallow complexion/face
1 pale yellow and unhealthy looking: --
a sallow face
The name is (probably) the plural form of "selja" which means sallow tree or willow.
She was not conventionally beautiful: her nose was a little too aquiline, her face too pale and thin (some called it sallow).
She described him as 3845 years old, with a sallow complexion, lank dark hair, a moustache and large teeth.
He has a greedy mouth, a hooked nose, liquid green eyes and a sallow complexion.
Adults can be found in spring on sallow catkins and the larvae tunnel in the stems of various thistle species.
But there were some others that were horrible: man-high, but with goblin-faces, sallow, leering, squint-eyed.
Adults are remarkable bumblebee mimics and are usually found in woodland in springtime visiting flowers such as sallow to feed.
He suffered hair loss, and had sallow skin in various stages of decomposition.
