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Pale, sickly-looking.
- Whome when his Lady ſaw, to him ſhe ran / With haſty ioy : to ſee him made her glad, / And ſad to view his viſage pale and wan, / Who earſt in flowres of freſhest youth was clad.
- She looked wan and worried, and then finally she was not in court one day, and later [...] he learned that she was confined to her room with a bad cold.
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Dim, faint.
- ’Twas so far away, that evil day when I prayed the Prince of Gloom / For the savage strength and the sullen length of life to work his doom. / Nor sign nor word had I seen or heard, and it happed so long ago; / My youth was gone and my memo
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Bland, uninterested.
- A wan expression
wan
wɒn8 senses · 97 ms
Level B2GRETOEFL
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The quality of being wan; wanness.uncountable
- And while we stood beside the fount, and watch’d / Or seem’d to watch the dancing bubble, approach'd / Melissa, tinged with wan from lack of sleep, / Or sorrow, and glowing round her dewy eyes / The circled Iris of a night of tears ; [...]
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Pronunciation spelling of one, representing Ireland and Glasgow English.alt-ofpronunciation-spelling
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A girl or woman.Ireland
- Then I’d tell myself there were plenty of oul wans and oul fellas in work who never got it and that I’d be lucky like them and escape. Only I didn’t. I don’t want to die.
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simple past of win.form-ofobsoletepast