Pallor

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ælÉ™(r)

Alternative forms

• pallour

Origin

From Latin pallor ("paleness, pallor"), from palleō ("I am or look pale, blanch").

Full definition of pallor

Noun

1. Paleness; want of color; pallidity.pallor of the complexion
• 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde"Sir," said the butler, turning to a sort of mottled pallor, "that thing was not my master, and there's the truth. My master"--here he looked round him and began to whisper--"is a tall, fine build of a man, and this was more of a dwarf."