Word of the day: complected

The word of the day is complected:

apparently < complexion n. (complect-ion) + -ed suffix¹.

U.S. dial. or colloq.

= complexioned adj. (OED)

"'I think David Cameron is in much bigger doo-doo than he's owning up to,' Chris Bryant, the strawberry-complected Labour M.P. for the district of Rhondda, was saying last week, as he sat on a bench under the soaring hammer-beam roof of Westminster Hall."

 - Lauren Collins, "Early birds", 25 July 2011 The New Yorker