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adj
Characterised by a delicate and pale-skinned beauty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: ethereal, white-handed
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Having hands that are white due to lack of outdoor work; Unaccustomed to physical labor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: soft-handed, uncalloused
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Fastidious and foppish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: dainty, dandy, anal-retentive, choosy, conscientious, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicking, finickity, finicky, finikin, fussy, hypercritical, lily-handed, meticulous, niggly, nitpickish, nit-picky, nitty, overcritical, overscrupulous, particular, pedantic, pernickety, persnickety, picky, beauish, buckish, coxcombical, dandiacal, dandified, dandyish, dandyistic, dudish, foppish, foppy, Jemmy-Jessamy, macaronic, swellish, Woosterian
Antonyms: none provided
History
From lily + handed, from the white color and delicacy of a lily.
