ivorine
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈʌɪvəɹiːn/
Adjective
ivorine (comparative more ivorine, superlative most ivorine)
- (obsolete) Made of ivory.
- Resembling ivory; white, smooth.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 162:
- All Van saw there of his new Ada were her ivorine thighs and haunches, and the very first time he clasped them she bade him, in the midst of his vigorous joy, to glance across her shoulder over the window ledge [...].
Translations
a type of man-made imitation ivory
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