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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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

She knew each lily white which Enna yields, etc.

From Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems by Arnold, Matthew

O plight me your faith, my Mary, And plight me your lily white hand; O plight me your faith, my Mary, Before I leave Scotia’s strand.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert




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