Meanings
comparative more ivorine · superlative most ivorine
- obsoleteMade of ivory.
- literaryResembling ivory; white, smooth.
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 [...].
1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 162
plural ivorines
- countableuncountableA type of man-made imitation ivory.
Origin
- Old Frenchivorin
- Englishivorine
From Old French ivorin, ivoirin, from ivoire (“ivory”); later also from ivory + -ine.
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Irish eabhairín
- eabhairína type of man-made imitation ivory
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