lily-handed
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lily-handed
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From lily + handed, from the white color and delicacy of a lily.
adjective more lily-handed · most lily-handed · lilyhanded
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Characterised by a delicate and pale-skinned beauty.
For the sake of these "lily-handed maidens so daintily occupied," to use the editor's words, and for their sakes alone, has he waded through so many pages of dense technicalities from Actinococcus to Wormskioldia.
Similar: ethereal, white-handed
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Having hands that are white due to lack of outdoor work; Unaccustomed to physical labor.
“Let me see your passport,” said old Bill, “I mean your hand.” He was looking for the marks of toil. Alas, sometimes for a lily-handed parson!
Similar: soft-handed, uncalloused
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Fastidious and foppish.
In fact he was a shallow-brained, lily-handed fop, and, as may be supposed, a great favorite with a certain class of ladies who mistake impertinence for wit, and fine clothes and affected manners for refinement and solid accomplishments.
Similar: dainty, dandy, anal-retentive, choosy, conscientious, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicking, finickity, finicky, finikin
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