Light skin
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Biography
Light skin is a human skin color that has a low level of eumelanin pigmentation as an adaptation to environments of low UV radiation. Due to migrations of people in recent centuries, light-skinned populations today are found all over the world.
"Her lithe figure shimmered ivory beneath the moon."
"Before him, swaying like a sapling in the wind, stood a woman. Her body was like ivory to his dazed gaze, and save for a light veil of gossamer, she was naked as the day. Her slender bare feet were whiter than the snow they spurned. ... Her full red lips smiled, and from her slender feet to the blinding crown of her billowy hair, her ivory body was as perfect as the dream of a god."
"It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair which flows below his shoulders is milk-white."
"The ivory body of that rare young slave with his pomegranate mouth!"