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
My face is lily white because I can't go off to the Bahamas on a holiday.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
His dashin', smashin', soft hat was yanked down over his home-breakin' face, and his dimpled chin was buried in his lily white hands.
From Kid Scanlan by Witwer, H. C. (Harry Charles)
She knew each lily white which Enna yields, etc.
From Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems by Arnold, Matthew
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
No longer a caricature of a rich lily-white County, it’s 40% non-Hispanic white, 34% Hispanic, 21.7% Asian and 2.1% Black.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2020
The small, lily-white, conservative rural school into which Alexie transferred as a boy became his haven.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2017
Quickly those lily-white ankles became covered in mud.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
