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lily white

[lil-ee-hwahyt, -wahyt, lil-ee-hwahyt, -wahyt] / ˈlɪl iˈʰwaɪt, -ˈwaɪt, ˈlɪl iˌʰwaɪt, -ˌwaɪt /


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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

My face is lily white because I can't go off to the Bahamas on a holiday.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Here's the breeches an' the purty stockin's an' shoes, an' the lily white shirt.

From In the Days of Poor Richard by Bacheller, Irving

By great efforts the mother and daughters choked down their wrath and mortification, bathed their swollen eyes, put on fresh lily white and carmine, and joined their guests.

From Hubert's Wife A Story for You by Lee, Minnie Mary




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