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
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My face is lily white because I can't go off to the Bahamas on a holiday.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The songs of the poet with lily white hands who writes about the dignity of toil and subservience to the employer will disappear.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert
The sky is dark, and dark the bay below Save where the midnight city's pallid glow Lies like a lily white On the black pool of night.
From The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics by Knowles, Frederic Lawrence