-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.20 Feb 2006

I thought the meaning you intended was the name of the white clothes worn by people who play bowls. Now I'm even more confused. If you want it to mean 'innocent and pure, unsullied' then the sentence makes even less sense, because you're using 'lily-white' as an adjective. You cannot stand around in an adjective. Even if you revert back to the noun form (which must be an invention of yours, or some technical bowls usage that I've never heard of) the sentence is still unparsable without punctuation, e.g.

'All they have is a squashed black egg which they stand around, in lily-whites, telling each other how genteel they are.'