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Definition of Skin colour
1. Noun. The coloring of a person's face.
Generic synonyms: Color, Coloring, Colour, Colouring
Specialized synonyms: Blondness, Fairness, Paleness, Rosiness, Ruddiness, Achromasia, Lividity, Lividness, Luridness, Paleness, Pallidness, Pallor, Wanness, Sallowness, Tawniness, Darkness, Duskiness, Swarthiness, Whiteness
Attributes: Blond, Blonde, Light-haired, Brunet, Brunette
Derivative terms: Complexion
Definition of Skin colour
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of skin color) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skin Colour
Literary usage of Skin colour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ethnology by Augustus Henry Keane (1896)
"... these Groupings—Elements of Classification: Physical and Mental Characters—Physical
tests of Race: Colour of the Skin—Colour and Texture of the Hair—The ..."
2. Ethnology: In Two Parts, I. Fundamental Ethnical Problems. II. The Primary by Augustus Henry Keane (1896)
"... these Groupings—Elements of Classification: Physical and Mental Characters—Physical
tests of Race: Colour of the Skin—Colour and Texture of the Hair—The ..."
3. The Negro in the New World by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1910)
"Elsewhere I have written on this subject: " The skin colour of the Nilotic negro
is dark almost to blackness. That of the Forest negro tends rather towards ..."
4. Points of the Horse: A Treatise on the Conformation, Movements, Breeds and by Matthew Horace Hayes (1904)
"General Remarks—Skin—Colour—Hair. General Remarks.—The body of the horse is
invested with a covering, the structure and functions of which vary according to ..."
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