"white-glove" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more white-glove [comparative], most white-glove [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} white-glove (comparative more white-glove, superlative most white-glove)
  1. Scrupulous, painstaking, meticulous.
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