lily-handed
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.82 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterised by a delicate and pale-skinned beauty.
adj
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."