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light-skinned

adjective as in light

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Officers are searching for the suspect who is described as “a light-skinned male, 20-30 years old wearing all black clothing.”

Morton’s privileged but stifling youth in a wealthy, light-skinned New Orleans family is sketched in a series of numbers that efficiently establish the expectations of the Creole class and his rebellions against it.

But we don’t really know how light-skinned Frank and Billy were.

This was the case in the early 20th century when milk advertisements, which positioned the drink as a nutritionally “perfect beverage,” would contrast healthy-looking light-skinned models with sickly looking darker-skinned models.

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The video shows Mr. Mathurin getting in the face of a shorter, light-skinned man who was standing by the apartment complex’s stairwell.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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