B. firmus, found in the eastern United States, eastern Canada, and Costa Rica, has a pallid cap colour, reddish stipe, and bitter taste, but unlike B. calopus, has red pores and lacks stipe reticulation.
I sit for a while in the dark – something I increasingly appreciate – watching the almost-full moon break though the moving mist and saturate the sky in pallid primrose colours.
Self-important, over-designed and veering awkwardly into killer-chiller territory, Changeling was as pallid as its sepia colour scheme.
The morning is so pallid that the only colour seems to come from his collection of rollicking abstract paintings by Gillian Ayres.
Everything about him was middling, pallid, lacking in color".
The colours would have first appeared bright and crisp, but over five-and-a-half centuries the painting has acquired layers of grey dirt which darken the tone and render the colours faint and pallid.
That history lesson done with, Mr Osborne began to relax, and a dab of colour returned to his pallid cheeks.
The Pennines are still pallid-looking from winter, mostly the colour of weak coffee, but from the grassy heights of Rowlee Pasture I can imagine these moors as a rolling, sunlit savannah, distant Derwent Edge an outcropping of some exotic sandstone.
Géricault's palette is composed of pallid flesh tones, and the murky colours of the survivors' clothes, the sea and the clouds.
The word pallid means "deficient in color", and compared to other species of sturgeon, the pallid is noticeably paler.
