white-handed

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Having hands that are white.

   “As exemplified by the white-handed gibbon, the commonest and best-studied member of the group, they show a remarkable convergence in social behavior to the dusky titi and other monogamous New World primates.”

2. sıfat Characterized by delicacy and a pale-skinned beauty.

   “He was one of the miserable little pretty white-handed, curly-headed boys, petted and pampered by some of the big fellows, who wrote their verses for them, taught them to drink and use bad language, and did all they could to spoil them for everything in this world and the next.”

3. sıfat 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.”

4. sıfat 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,...”

5. sıfat Benevolent or virtuous.

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