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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A yellowish colouring of pigments in hair, skin, feathers, etc. uncountable

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ξανθισμός (xanthismós), by surface analysis, xanth- + -ism.

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