Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Yellow.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Yellow: in anthropology and ethnography specifying the yellow or Mongolioid type of mankind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Yellow; specifically (Ethnol.), of or pertaining to those races of man which have yellowish, red, auburn, or brown hair.
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- adjective
Yellow -brown ;yolk -colored. - adjective archaic, ethnology Pertaining to people with yellowish, red, auburn, or brown hair.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk
Etymologies
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Examples
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The xanthous complexion is rare, though not unknown in cities, but the leucous does not exist.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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The moonlight here was tinged with the xanthous color of flesh gone to mold.
Conan The Unconquered Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983
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The moonlight here was tinged with the xanthous color of flesh gone to mold.
Conan The Unconquered Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983
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The change from the _xanthous_ to the _melanous_ complexion, is a circumstance of constant occurrence; there are few children born, whose complexion does not darken as they grow up, in many cases undergoing a total change: the passage from dark to fair is rare, but it constantly occurs that _xanthous_, or even _leucous_ children, are born of
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various
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To the different characters of human complexion, Dr Prichard gives three distinctive terms -- the _melanous_ or brunette; the _xanthous_ or blonde; and the _leucous_ or albino; the _melanous_ predominating in the southern countries, the _xanthous_ in the northern.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various
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_Il Trovatore_; and from such fluffy, xanthous whiskers as Lohengrins wear; and from sentimental old maids who sink into senility lamenting that Brahms never wrote an opera; and from programme music, with or without notes; and from Swiss bell-ringers, Vincent D'Indy, the Paris
A Book of Burlesques 1918
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What imaginable intelligence could compensate her for the flat blueness of her eyes, the xanthous pallor of her hair, the doll-like pink of her cheeks?
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Finland and a great part of Russia, the xanthous variety, strongly marked, is prevalent The Danes have always been known as a people of florid complexion, blue eyes, and yellow hair The Hollanders were termed by Silius Italicus, "Auricomi Batavi," the golden haired
History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George W. Williams 1870
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Berbers of the plains are of brown complexion with black hair, we have seen that the Shuluh mountaineers are fair, and that the inhabitants of the high tracts of Mons Aurasius are completely xanthous, having red or yellow hair and blue eyes, which fancifully, and without the shadow of any proof, they have been conjectured to have derived from the Vandal troops of Genseric.
History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George W. Williams 1870
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_xanthous_ complexion prevails -- the inhabitants of Australia and the
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various
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