lily-white

comparative more lily-white · superlative most lily-white

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

   Not a pimple nor freckle marred her lily-white skin

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   Four for the Gospel makers, / Three, three, the rivals, / Two, two, the lily-white boys, Clothed all in green, O

   (Can we date this quote?), “Green Grow the Rushes, O”

3. Innocent, having a reputation beyond reproach.
4. derogatoryslangsometimesOf the Caucasian race; white.

   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.

   2023 March 7, Steve Rose, quoting China Miéville, “The romcom effect: will a new movie gentrify Peckham as Richard Curtis gentrified Notting Hill?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN