lily-handed adjective3 •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 •Characterised by a delicate and pale-skinned beauty.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... — 1972 •Fastidious and foppish. formsmore lily-handed · most lily-handed