Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of complect
- USin compoundsnot comparableHaving a specified complexion; complexioned.
light-complected
with a light complexion
2 more examples
I remember him as a tall, coffee-complected black man, with an extra-ordinarily delicate voice
1986, Samuel R. Delany, Joseph Beam, “The Possibility of Possibilities”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 203The station agent was a barrel-shaped man deep in his middle age, pasty-complected and soft.
2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 181
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