What does lime-fingered mean?

lime-fingered

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.01 in modern English

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"A clean-fingered huswife, and an idle, folk say, And will be lime-fingered, I fear, by my fay!"
"Not careless, slothful, false, lime-fingered servants; but the strict master, that observes, and rates, and chastises them: would he hold his hands and tongue, there would be peace."
"Popes long hands and Lime-fingered Appeales."

more lime-fingered (comparative) most lime-fingered (superlative)

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