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etiolate
verb
to make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant
to make a person pale and sickly-looking
1980
: She was a very lovely woman in her late thirties, in a silk dress of screaming scarlet that would have
etiolated
a white woman to bled veal. " Anthony Burgess,
Earthly Powers
1995
: Gwynn and Richard were at the Westway Health and Fitness Centre, surrounded by thirty or forty
etiolated drunks
: playing snooker. " Martin Amis,
i: theinformation
Etymology:
French étolier, from Normandy French étieuler, ultimately from Old French estuble "stubble", from Latin stupla, from stipula "straw, stubble".
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