white-glove

adjective

Scrupulous, painstaking, meticulous.

“a white-glove inspection”

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adjectivewhite-glove (comparative more white-glove, superlative most white-glove)

comparative more white-glove · superlative most white-glove

  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.

    1981 August 15, John Mitzel, “Meetings and Mayhem, History and Hype”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 13
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Chicago

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