Tom'un soluk bir teni var. - Tom has a pale complexion.
Soluk tenli uzun boylu bir adam odaya girdi ve Tom'un yanına oturdu. - A tall man with a sallow complexion walked into the room and sat down next to Tom.
When you refer to someone's complexion, you are referring to the natural colour or condition of the skin on their face. She had short brown hair and a pale complexion
(obsolete) a combination of elements (of dryness and warmth or of the four humors) that was once believed to determine a person's health and temperament texture and appearance of the skin of the face the coloring of a person's face a point of view or general attitude or inclination; "he altered the complexion of his times"; "a liberal political complexion"
literally means what embraces or contains, and the idea implies that the colour of the skin corresponds to the habit of body, and the habit of body answers to the element which predominates If fire predominates, the person is bilious or full of bile, if air, he is sanguine or full of blood, if earth, the body is melancholic or full of black bile, if water, it is phlegmatic or full of phlegm The first is hot and dry, the second hot and moist, the third cold and dry, and the last moist and cold like water 'Tis ill, tho' different your complexions are [i e dispositions] Dryden Cretans through mere complexion lie Pitt: Hymn of Callimachus Compline (2 syl ) The last service of the day in the Roman Catholic Church First appointed by the abbot Benedict in the sixth century The word is a corruption of completorium In ecclesiastical Latin vesperinus, from vesper, means evening service, and completinus is formed on the same model