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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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
And now indeed Hope, holy sister, swept through the poet's sky in crown of gold and robe of lily white.
From Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century by Marshall, Emma