Definition of Complexion

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Complexion

The state of being complex; complexity.

A combination; a complex.

The bodily constitution; the temperament; habitude, or natural disposition; character; nature.

The color or hue of the skin, esp. of the face.

The general appearance or aspect; as, the complexion of the sky; the complexion of the news.

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Complexion Quotations

I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.
Joan Crawford

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Thomas Paine

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.
Audrey Hepburn

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
Joseph Conrad

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
William Lloyd Garrison

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.
Marian Anderson

There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing.
Ed Smith

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.
Lytton Strachey

People should have the choice to be able to live where they want to live, go to school where they want to go to school, marry whoever they want to marry regardless of what their complexion is and so forth.
Ed Smith

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
Zelda Fitzgerald

Complexion Translations

complexion in Dutch is teint, tint
complexion in French is teint
complexion in German is Gesichtsfarbe
complexion in Norwegian is hudfarge
complexion in Portuguese is tez
complexion in Spanish is tez, cutis
complexion in Swedish is hy, utseende

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