Lily-white

adj, slang

adj, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    A shade of the color white.
  2. 2
    Pure, unblemished, immaculate.

    "Not a pimple nor freckle marred her lily-white skin"

  3. 3
    Innocent, having a reputation beyond reproach.
  4. 4
    Of the Caucasian race; white. derogatory, slang, sometimes

    "The film was shot on location in Notting Hill, but observers noticed how its streets were suspiciously free of black people, and instead “wholly populated with mindless, twittering, wittering, lily-white rich”, as writer China Miéville put it."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of a pure white color wordnet
  2. 2
    restricted to whites only wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
bigotedblamelesschalkyfrostedfrostygrizzled

Example

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"Not a pimple nor freckle marred her lily-white skin"

Etymology

From Middle English liliwhite, lilye-white, lilye-whyt, equivalent to lily + white.

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