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Definition of Light-skinned
1. Adjective. Having little skin pigmentation.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Light-skinned
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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