white lady
Britishnoun
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a cocktail consisting of gin, Cointreau, and lemon juice
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informal methylated spirits as a drink, sometimes mixed with shoe polish or other additives
Example Sentences
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I said, “There was a white lady that fell out the chair and was beating her fists on the ground, so I guess they liked it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
"I grew up seeing my mom being the only white lady in the village in Africa where I was born and where my dad is from," he says.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2021
This is especially true once Malcolm seizes on a critic he calls “the white lady from the Los Angeles Times” who, to him, epitomizes what’s wrong in film criticism.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 3, 2021
She is just a brittle white lady, still herself, still my mom, but gradually slipping away in comfortable, torturous loneliness.
From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2021
“The old white lady with the little dog?”
From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine
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