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lily white

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


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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

A dream that haunts my memory's sight— Your hair of moonlight, face of snow, And eyes, blue stars of laughing light, O girl, so like a lily white!

From Weeds by the Wall Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius

The lily white shall be your smock, Becomes your body neat; And your head shall be deck’d with jelly-flower, And the primrose in your breast.

From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Sidgwick, Frank




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