Lily-handed

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Characterised by a delicate and pale-skinned beauty..

Definitions by Sense

1. Characterised by a delicate and pale-skinned beauty.
2. Having hands that are white due to lack of outdoor work; Unaccustomed to physical labor.
3. Fastidious and foppish.

Example Sentences

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.

So when he writes : ' When Love the lily-handed fought with death', it does not mar the beauty of the line to know that lily-handed was one of Robert Greene's concoctions...

Rawlings' defaulter is encumbered, most disgracefully, with the usual blonde, in this case the lily-handed cashier in a motion picture shop;

“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!

'I know more than any lily-handed pill-roller from the city,' he gasped as well as he could, trying to raise himself from the pillow and failing.

The fishermen looked at Malcolm, who compared to them seemed incredibly soft and lily-handed.

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.

He was no lily-handed gardener, no finger-tip lover,who, with an ivory-handled sécateur, snips off minute dead twigs,and selects a rosebud for his buttonhole, but went about his business with the tender ruthlessness that true gardening demands.

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• more lily-handed
• most lily-handed
• lilyhanded

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