white-handed

adjective5

1. •
   Having hands that are white.
2. •
   Aristocratic, with connotations of effeminacy and foppishness.

   • A white-handed, useless young aristocrat, by your account, married to a preacher's daughter, without capital, or useful knowledge, or any handicraft to live by. — 1862
3. •
   From the professional classes; With hands that are not brown from manual labor.

   • Among the successful there were scarcely any of the head-working, white-handed class, but a number of hard-working, frugal men, who, landing without a penny,... — 1878
4. •
   Characterized by delicacy and a pale-skinned beauty.
5. •
   Benevolent or virtuous.

   • O welcome, pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings! — 1634