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Lily-white

adj, slang

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

Etymology

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

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