lily-white
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9.2
- adjective
- /ˈlɪliˌwaɪt/
- Offensive
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solo para blancos
- In 1966, the school started five black players against lily-white Kentucky and won the NCAA championship.
Examples
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At the time, motion pictures, like many industries across America, were virtually lily-white (Zieger; MacLean).
Academic text (2012) -
This was the early nineties, though, and I suspect in Romney's day they were both lily-white bastions of WASP wealth.
Blog text (29) -
Better that than a lily-white campus in which such issues would never get raised.
Academic text (1998) -
Or maybe the lily-white Dr. Jay was compensating for the hospital's having no black surgeons like they have on all the TV shows.
Fiction book (2002) -
Or is this just a liberal smear job to besmirch the lily-white reputation of Paul Ryan?
Blog text (29) -
"They got just what they apparently wanted—a lily-white basketball game."
Academic text (2014) -
In the same year, the NAACP's labor director, Herbert Hill, labeled six IATSE locals lily-white.
Academic text (2012) -
That's what the protesters on TV would've called the Dr. Jay types in the sixties—"lily-white," because even though the sixties were gone and would never come back, he was that type.
Fiction book (2002) -
The club was criticized for being a lily-white organization that excluded members of other races.
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Many residents in the area believe that the school district has been lily-white for too long, neglecting the needs of its diverse population.
Synonyms
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9.1
Places reserved only for people with light skin during segregation
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5.6
Relating to white people from Europe and their family origins
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Lily-white comes from the same image of a very white lily, but people later used that picture to call a place or group 'all white' in the people who belonged to it. So lily-white can describe an organization or area that was kept only for white people.