lily white
Example Sentences
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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
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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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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