lilyhanded
See also: lily-handed
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]lilyhanded (comparative more lilyhanded, superlative most lilyhanded)
- Alternative form of lily-handed
- 1954, Nathan Comfort Starr, King Arthur today: the Arthurian legend in english and American Literatur 1901-1953, page 112:
- A postscript artfully tells of Tristram's marriage to Iseult the Lilyhanded.
- 1957, The theatrical immage, page 175:
- "Don't treat me as if I took your Robert Edmond Jones for a lilyhanded idler breathing mists," writes Virginia Tracy
- 1974, Christina Stead, The Salzburg tales, page 152:
- He is a moochy cove, a maundering bard: he does not like to be in all these business deals, but she does most of the work and the money keeps him lilyhanded while he "creates"