chryselephantine

[ kris-el-uh-fan-tin, -tahyn ]

adjective
  1. made of or overlaid with gold and ivory, as certain objects made in ancient Greece.

Origin of chryselephantine

1
1820–30; <Greek chrȳselephántinos, equivalent to chrȳs-chrys- + elephántinos (elephant-, stem of eléphāselephant, ivory + -inos-ine1

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chryselephantine

/ (ˌkrɪsɛlɪˈfæntɪn) /


adjective
  1. (of ancient Greek statues) made of or overlaid with gold and ivory

Origin of chryselephantine

1
C19: from Greek khruselephantinos, from khrusos gold + elephas ivory; see elephant

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