Usually means: Appearance or color of skin.
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  1. complexion: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. complexion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. complexion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. complexion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. complexion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Complexion, complexion: Wordnik
  7. complexion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. complexion: Wiktionary
  9. complexion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. complexion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. complexion: Dictionary.com
  12. complexion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. complexion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Complexion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Complexion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. complexion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. complexion: Rhymezone
  18. complexion, complexin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. complexion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. complexion: Free Dictionary
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  1. complexion: Legal dictionary

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  3. complexion: Medical dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The quality, colour, or appearance of the skin on the face.
noun:  (figuratively) The outward appearance of something.
noun:  Outlook, attitude, or point of view.
noun:  (obsolete, medicine) The combination of humours making up one's physiological "temperament", being either hot or cold, and moist or dry.
noun:  (loanword, especially in scientific works translated from German) An arrangement.
verb:  (transitive) To give a colour to.

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