inlaid with gold and ivory
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• (a.) Composed of, or adorned with, gold and ivory.
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The term for Ancient Greek wooden statues overlaid with gold and ivory, which in the 20thC refers to cast-bronze figures with ivory flesh parts, popular 1910-30.
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(from Greek chrysos, `gold,` and elephantinos, `ivory`), type of figural sculpture in which the flesh was made of ivory and the drapery of gold. ... [1 related articles]
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Made of gold and ivory.
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Chrys`el·e·phan'tine adjective [ Greek
chryso`s gold + ... made of ivory, from ... ivory, elephant.] Composed of, or adorned with, gold and ivory. » The
chryselephantine statues of the Greeks were built up with inferior materials, veneered, as it were, with ivory for the flesh, ...
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Chryselephantine is a term meaning made of gold and ivory combined. The term is applied to statues executed in these two substances by the ancient Greeks, such as Pheidias's great statue of Athena.
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made of or overlaid with gold and ivory, as certain objects made in ancient Greece.
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