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"A shade of the color white."
],
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"_dis1": "90 1 1 9",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "belosnežen",
"sense": "a shade of the color white",
"word": "белоснежен"
},
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"_dis1": "90 1 1 9",
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a shade of the color white",
"word": "liljanvalkoinen"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 1 1 9",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a shade of the color white",
"word": "liliomfehér"
}
]
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"text": "Not a pimple nor freckle marred her lily-white skin",
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{
"ref": "(Can we date this quote?), “Green Grow the Rushes, O”",
"text": "Four for the Gospel makers, / Three, three, the rivals, / Two, two, the lily-white boys, Clothed all in green, O",
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"Pure, unblemished, immaculate."
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"_dis1": "1 93 6 1",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "pure, unblemished, immaculate",
"word": "blütenweiß"
}
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"Innocent, having a reputation beyond reproach."
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"ref": "2023 March 7, Steve Rose, quoting China Miéville, “The romcom effect: will a new movie gentrify Peckham as Richard Curtis gentrified Notting Hill?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
"text": "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.",
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"Of the Caucasian race; white."
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"(slang, sometimes derogatory) Of the Caucasian race; white."
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "belosnežen",
"sense": "a shade of the color white",
"word": "белоснежен"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a shade of the color white",
"word": "liljanvalkoinen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a shade of the color white",
"word": "liliomfehér"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "pure, unblemished, immaculate",
"word": "blütenweiß"
}
],
"word": "lily-white"
}
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