lily white
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I think I get your overall point, but I don't believe it is fully fitting to characterize Evangelicalism as "the lily white religion."
From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2017
The book was parodic frontier realism, a Frederic Remington painting with the colors put in by numbers: courageous red, sky blue, lily white and Zane gray.
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My face is lily white because I can't go off to the Bahamas on a holiday.
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Here's the breeches an' the purty stockin's an' shoes, an' the lily white shirt.
From In the Days of Poor Richard by Bacheller, Irving
Alleyne, glancing at her, noted that her breath came quick and short, and that her cheeks had blanched to a lily white.
From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir