ADJECTIVE
- of a pure white color
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restricted to whites only
under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains
a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization
How To Use lily-white In A Sentence
- They were all pretty much at least 18 by then, and apparently weren't all lily-white like their reputations would have you believe.
- Combined with the lobster-red sunburn of my torso and the lily-white band about my middle created by my downturned long-john, I resembled a cylindrical French flag.
- I blush, the warm heat flooding over my cheeks, changing my normally lily-white complexion to a pink, and take my place with the rest of the squad.
- In order to live, we often hidden in rugged case below, pretend to be very strong, however, we still have a lily-white, fragile heart behind the mask.
- In a painting of the Bethesda Fountain, Chase posed an elegant woman dressed in white against the fresh water and sunny air - a symbol of urban health and lily-white purity.
- If ever there was a case of blatant discrimination, it has been in the disproportionate allocation of Hostess marketing dollars to the lily-white Twinkie and the benign neglect of the chocolate Ho Ho. Al Checchi: Capitalism and Its Discontents: The Rise and Fall of the Twinkie
- Rasia took no notice of the drastic, rather worrisome change, merely dismissed her own warden and caught hold of my arm in her lily-white hands.
- Also, I could speak Spanish pretty decently and was looking for a place very different from Jenison, Michigan -- the lily-white suburb where I had grown up. Craig Regester: Why Choose Detroit?
- a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization
- A sidelight cast a sepulchral glow through the lily-white curtains that hung at her new patio doors. THE CALLIGRAPHER
