lil´y-white´ness

lil´y-white´ness
lil|y-white «LIHL ee HWYT», adjective.
1. clean; free of stigma: »

There was no justification for the “war” that was going on…“It should end,” he declared, “Neither one is lily-white” (New York Times).

2. pure white; white as a lily: »

And, as with my lily-white hands I knock up an extra wing in which to house them (Punch).

3. U.S. excluding or seeking to exclude Negroes: »

a lily-white country club.

–lil´y-white´ness, noun.
Lil|y-white «LIHL ee HWYT», noun, adjective.
–n.
a member of a faction of Republicans in the southern United States seeking to exclude Negroes from political affairs.
–adj.
of or having to do with the Lily-whites.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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