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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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
Lips as red as pomegranates And a curved nose lily white, Limbs as slender and as cool As some green oasis-palm.
From Atta Troll by Heine, Heinrich