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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

Upon his fist he bore, for his delight, An eagle well reclaim'd, and lily white.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various

With grateful words and tears, which chased each other down her cheeks of lily white, she told them that she was the daughter of a Duke, whose castle was hard by.

From The Seven Champions of Christendom by Kingston, William Henry Giles




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