white-glove
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]white-glove (comparative more white-glove, superlative most white-glove)
- Scrupulous, painstaking, meticulous.
- a white-glove inspection
- 1981 August 15, John Mitzel, “Meetings and Mayhem, History and Hype”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 13:
- Begin with the mass People's Riots at Stonewall. Segue into the hi-energy yet amorphous crisis-wracked Gay Liberation Front. Which clones into the Gay Activists Alliance, structured, single-issued, committee-heavy. When even this proved too unwieldy for an elite who wanted a more upscale machine tailored to their tastes, there appeared the white-glove National Gay Task Force.