Pallor is an unhealthy paleness of the face. A deathly pallor, the pallor of illness, a waxy pallor.
It is a clinical sign as much as a description, since pallor is what a doctor looks for in anaemia and in shock. It belongs to faces almost exclusively, and it always suggests something wrong.
1nounpallorAn unhealthy paleness of the face.
“The deathly pallor of his face told us he was seriously ill.”
pallor is a paleness.
Latin pallor comes from pallere, to be pale.
Proto-Indo-European
*pelH-
Latin
pallor
Old French
palor — paleness, pallor
Middle English
pallour
English, today
pallor
Built from
From Middle English pallour, from Old French palor (“paleness, pallor”), from Latin pallor, from palleō (“to look pale, blanch”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA