White-glove

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Scrupulous, painstaking, meticulous.

    "a white-glove inspection"

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"Begin with the mass People's Riots at Stonewall. Segue into the hi-energy yet amorphous crisis-wracked Gay Liberation Front. Which clones into the Gay Activists Alliance, structured, single-issued, committee-heavy. When even this proved too unwieldy for an elite who wanted a more upscale machine tailored to their tastes, there appeared the white-glove National Gay Task Force."

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