'pallid' in Speak, Memory (An Autobiography Revisited) | Bookmarker

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(adjective) deficient in color; wan / (adjective) lacking sparkle or liveliness; dull

Only in very expert hands could it be made to transcend its humble origin—the pallid poetry of eighteenth-century France

on Russian elegies

—p.219 by Vladimir Nabokov

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