Definition of Light-skinned

1. Adjective. Having little skin pigmentation.

Similar to: White

Lexicographical Neighbors of Light-skinned

light-headedness
light-hearted
light-heartedly
light-horseman
light-ion fusion
light-legged
light-minded
light-mindedness
light-near dissociation
light-o'-love
light-of-love
light-off temperature
light-repressible receptor protein kinase
light-scattering photometry
light-sensitive
light-skinned (current term)
light-tight
light-water reactor
light-year
light a fire under
light adaptation
light air
light as a feather
light at the end of the tunnel
light ballast
light bath
light beam
light beer
light bread
light breeze

Literary usage of Light-skinned

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore (1916)
"Now, however, this dark-skinned woman will produce one group, and the light-skinned woman another, and the light-skinned men shall marry the dark- skinned ..."

2. Oceanic [mythology] by Roland Burrage Dixon (1916)
"Now, however, this dark-skinned woman will produce one group, and the light-skinned woman another, and the light-skinned men shall marry the dark- skinned ..."

3. The Mythology of All Races by Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, John Arnott MacCulloch (1916)
"Now, however, this dark-skinned woman will produce one group, and the light-skinned woman another, and the light-skinned men shall marry the dark- skinned ..."

4. A History of Travel in America: Being an Outline of the Development in Modes by Seymour Dunbar (1915)
"So when another light-skinned horde of invaders came, proclaimed Christianity as its religion and urged that belief upon the natives in place of their own, ..."

5. Études sur la Queste del saint graal attribuée à Gautier Map by Albert Pauphilet, Colonel Bell Burr, Ernst Ziegler, Douglas Symmers (1921)
"1A young woman named Lynch, a light-skinned negress, who resides in a cottage in the ... She blames the light-skinned negress for her misfortune and has ..."

6. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1901)
"Now, it is an interesting fact that there is in Central Africa another race of originally light-skinned, thin-lipped, Semitic people, who are in their ..."

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