facade-ectomy n.— «To be sure, shaving away everything but the facade of a building has been done before. In 1989, architects Moriyama & Teshima jammed a modern office building at 10 S. LaSalle St. with blue and lime green walls...
clean-skin n.— «The fear has always been the so-called “clean skin’—that’s a person whose documents are completely legitimate, are not forged.» —“Briton ‘could stage another September 11’” by Toby...
creeping crud n.— «“Jungle rot,” “New Guinea crud” or “the creeping crud” are U.S. servicemen’s names for any & every kind of tropical skin disease.» —“Jungle Rot” Time Aug. 13, 1945...
less-than-a-hundred-mile-an-hour tape n.— «The regular tape is called less-than-a-hundred-mile-an-hour tape in the industry, and you use that for a lot of things short of the skin. This speed tape is specifically made for speeds a hundred...
fluorescent tan n. very pale or bright white skin. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
browning n.— «The assumptions are that beauty is not obviously black; although, in the context of Jamaica, and perhaps the rest of the English-speaking Caribbean, it is not overtly Caucasian and aquiline. Something in between translates...