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complexion

[kuhm-plek-shuhn] / kəmˈplɛk ʃən /


NOUN
general nature of something
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Bullard wrote a book, “The Wrong Complexion for Protection” in 2012 with another environmental and climate justice expert, Beverly Wright, about how federal responses to disasters often exclude black communities.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2022

I use a little bit of concealer, mascara and then Complexion Rescue by BareMinerals.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2018

Complexion in Shakespeare’s time was a measurement of both beauty and virtue.

From Slate • Nov. 11, 2015

An entertaining if perhaps excessively appreciative biography of Pioneer Adman Albert Lasker, the genius personally responsible for tattooing such blather as "That Schoolgirl Complexion" on the American consciousness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Which Temperature hath a good Latitude: as appeareth by the Complexion of man.

From The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara by Dee, John




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