In the diary, he noted her pale complection after the long winter.

Though now archaic, the term complectional once served as a medical adjective describing temperament and skin tone.

Photographers adjust lighting to flatter different complections during portrait sessions.

Skilled weavers complect dyed fibers into intricate patterns that tell their community's history.

The gardener spent the afternoon complecting vines around the trellis to form a living lattice.

The historian described many subjects as complected, noting whether they were fair- or dark-skinned.

Over the years, the climbing vines complected the old trellis until it was nearly invisible behind a curtain of green.

The historian complects the disparate sources into a coherent narrative.