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lilyhanded

lilyhanded is the alternative form of lily-handed.

Meaning of lily-handed

Adjective

lily-handed (comparative more lily-handed, superlative most lily-handed)

  1. 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.1860, James Silk Buckingham, John Sterling, Frederick Denison Maurice, The Athenaeum - Issues 1706-1731, page 293
  2. 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!1930, Andover Newton Bulletin
  3. 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.1859, T.W. Strong, Yankee-notions - Volume 8, page 26

Forms of lilyhanded

comparativemore lilyhanded
superlativemost lilyhanded

Questions about lilyhanded

What is lilyhanded the alternative form of?
Lilyhanded is the alternative form of lily-handed.

Words near lilyhanded in the dictionary

  1. Lilyann
  2. Lilyanna
  3. Lilybeth
  4. Lilydale
  5. Lilyfield
  6. lilyhanded
  7. lilylike
  8. lilypad
  9. lilypads
  10. lilypond
  11. lilyponds

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