lily-white
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
- A shade of the color white.
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Pure, unblemished, immaculate.
— Not a pimple nor freckle marred her lily-white skin
- Innocent, having a reputation beyond reproach.
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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.
词源
From Middle English liliwhite, lilye-white, lilye-whyt, equivalent to lily + white.
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