lily-white
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But if Jackson seemed like an awkward fit for a mostly rural, lily-white state, he nonetheless saw possibilities there.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2026
It’s a beautiful, sometimes shocking NC-17 story, kept out of the lily-white, upper crust canon of literature — until now.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2022
Margaret presides over a crumbling manor whose décor is dominated by portraits of lily-white colonialists from centuries past.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2020
Cole’s ascendance as a star is just one example of how romance—which accounts for 23 percent of the U.S. fiction market—has progressed past the lily-white days of yore.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2020
Quickly those lily-white ankles became covered in mud.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
I think I get your overall point, but I don't believe it is fully fitting to characterize Evangelicalism as "the lily white religion."
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2017
The book was parodic frontier realism, a Frederic Remington painting with the colors put in by numbers: courageous red, sky blue, lily white and Zane gray.
From Time Magazine Archive
My face is lily white because I can't go off to the Bahamas on a holiday.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lips as red as pomegranates And a curved nose lily white, Limbs as slender and as cool As some green oasis-palm.
From Atta Troll by Heine, Heinrich
He rent the sheet upon her face,115 A little aboon her chin; With lily white cheek, and lemin' eyne, She lookt and laugh'd to him.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
