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lily white

[lil-ee-hwahyt, -wahyt, lil-ee-hwahyt, -wahyt] / ˈlɪl iˈʰwaɪt, -ˈwaɪt, ˈlɪl iˌʰwaɪt, -ˌwaɪt /


lily-white




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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

Our Editorial head is aching, Our lily white hand is rather shaking.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott

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 Heinrich Heine

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

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

Historically, Disney has been late to break its streak of lily-white content, but the Prouds brought a Black family to the channel.

From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2020

Quickly those lily-white ankles became covered in mud.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge




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