light-skinned
adj1
Having light-colored skin.
2
Of a black person, having relatively light-colored skin.
- The other one was Creole-looking, a light-skinned black guy with pointy cheekbones and nappy hair.1987, Elmore Leonard, Bandits, page 56:
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