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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

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

They throwed the real Marc out on his lily white ear, and seven of 'em got pinched for disorderly conduct.

From Kid Scanlan by Witwer, H. C. (Harry Charles)

You could see it in the dishpan glow of his scrubbed forehead, in the spotless flannels and the lily white hands.

From Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World by Fuhr, Ernest




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