complected

complected

English

Verb

complected

  1. simple past and past participle of complect

Adjective

complected (not comparable)

  1. (US, in combination) Having a specified complexion; complexioned.
    light-complected ― with a light complexion
    • 1986, Samuel R. Delany, Joseph Beam, “The Possibility of Possibilities”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 203:
      I remember him as a tall, coffee-complected black man, with an extra-ordinarily delicate voice
    • 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 181:
      The station agent was a barrel-shaped man deep in his middle age, pasty-complected and soft.
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