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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Significant maintenance costs, or maybe tales of the castle being haunted by a ghostly white lady, appeared to have scared off some potential buyers.
From BBC • Aug. 25, 2023
“You think every white lady is me,” she tells him.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2022
I gotta say, it seems like watching a white lady puke on the floor would be more exciting than a bunch of people sitting around eating a meal together, but this felt fantastic.
From Salon • May 11, 2022
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
From down the hallway, a doorway opened and a black woman watched in silence as the dark-haired, bowlegged white lady talked to the closed door.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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