Definitions for Lily-white

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Lily-white lil·y-white

Spelling: [adjective lil-ee-hwahyt, -wahyt;

IPA: /adjective ˈlɪl iˈʰwaɪt, -ˈwaɪt; noun ˈlɪl iˌʰwaɪt, -ˌwaɪt/

Lily-White is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in Lily-white (-ehiilltwy).

Definitions for Lily-white

noun

1. a member of a lily-white organization, especially a member of a former faction of the Republican Party in the South opposed to the inclusion of blacks in the party or in political life in general.

adjective

1. white as a lily:
2. pure; untouched by corruption or imperfection; above reproach:
3. designating or pertaining to any faction, organization, or group opposing the inclusion of blacks, especially in political or social life.

Origin of Lily-white

1275-1325; Middle English lylie-whyt

Examples for Lily-white

And he said he was sorrowing for a lily-white hound that he had lost.

And then, brother, the faces of the beaux are of such a lily-white hue!

Should the people be allowed to think that he was lily-white?

Her face, that had been lily-white, was flushed from brow to neck.

They went on swimming about after their own lily-white mother.

I have always told my friends that you were a chilling, lily-white flake of snow.

Without pandering, Christie made real progress in appealing to voters outside the lily-white confines of the conservative base.

She was lily-white whose cheeks had but now been burning so fiercely.

But only recently did this dispute spread to the lily-white slopes of a Montana ski resort.

She was lily-white, whose cheeks had but now been burning so fiercely.