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What does lily-white mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word lily-white? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. A shade of the color white.
  2. Pure, unblemished, immaculate.
  3. Innocent, having a reputation beyond reproach.
  4. (slang) Restricted to Caucasians; pejorative in describing a white person, as are white-bread and paleface.
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With your sandy locks in shapes that no sand would ever dare be molded into, and your lily-white skin, that blinds my eyes with its radiating light.
He couldn't count the amount of times he had envied those slim hands of hers, with their lily-white grace.
Then they convince themselves they are the most righteous, lily-white citizens God ever created.
He reached over and held her small hand in his large one, stroking the top of her dainty lily-white hand with his broad, chocolate-colored thumb.
They were all pretty much at least 18 by then, and apparently weren't all lily-white like their reputations would have you believe.
Strangely, Doyle lost sight of the ground ball in the background of Bench's lily-white uniform.

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