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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"You might as well say that the root of a rose is red, and of a lily white," said No. 3.
From Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert by Newman, John Henry
Her confusion expressed itself in deep damask roses on the cheeks that had, indeed, been lily white before.
From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various