complected

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adjective

Having a specified complexion; complexioned.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of complect
adjectivecomplected (not comparable)
  1. 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 203

    The 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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