Definition of "wannish" [wan•nish]

• Quite wan, quite pale (adjective)

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• "And letters, where my tears have washed, a wannish white."
• "In the shop a single gas-light was burning its last, and this, with that near the pier, were the only two that I saw: and ghastly enough they looked, transparently wannish, and as it were ashamed, like blinking night-things overtaken by the glare of day."
• "Streams down each diamonded pane and blurs with tears the wannish day."