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.
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My face is lily white because I can't go off to the Bahamas on a holiday.
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As bell of lily white, In streamlet mirror'd bright, All quiv'ring with delight, Is my love to me— My love to me.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles
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