lily-white

adj 4

Definitions

adj

1

A shade of the color white.

2

Pure, unblemished, immaculate.

Not a pimple nor freckle marred her lily-white skin

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

3

Innocent, having a reputation beyond reproach.

4

Of 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.

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