She was a very lovely woman in her late thirties, in a silk dress of screaming scarlet that would have etiolated a white woman to bled veal.— (Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, 1980)
Gwynn and Richard were at the Westway Health and Fitness Centre, surrounded by thirty or forty etiolated drunks: playing snooker.— (Martin Amis, The information, 1995)
