lily-white

• Adjetivo que describe algo de un blanco puro o, en sentido figurado, a alguien moralmente puro, inocente o libre de culpa.

An adjective used to describe something that is pure white, or figuratively, someone who is morally pure or innocent.

1. Pure white colorB1formal

   Having a pure, bright white color, like that of a lily flower.

   Blanco puro como el lirio

   • The bride wore a lily-white dress.
   • The snow was lily-white under the moonlight.
   • The petals of the flower were a perfect lily-white.

   Sinónimosivorymilk-whitepearlysnow-whitesnowy

2. Exclusively whiteC1informalamerican

   Restricted to or composed only of white people, often in a discriminatory context.

   Exclusivamente blanco

   • The club had a lily-white membership policy until the 1960s.
   • The neighborhood was historically lily-white.
   • They criticized the organization for its lily-white leadership.

   Antónimosdiverseintegratedmultiracial