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Wan

WAN
Wan (, a. Etym: [AS. wann, wonn, wan, won, dark, lurid, livid,
perhaps originally, worn out by toil, from winnan to labor, strive.
See Win.]

Defn: Having a pale or sickly hue; languid of look; pale; pallid.
"Sad to view, his visage pale and wan." Spenser.
My color . . . [is] wan and of a leaden hue. Chaucer.
Why so pale and wan, fond lover Suckling.
With the wan moon overhead. Longfellow.

Wan

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