chryselephantine

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It was of colossal dimensions, and was what the ancients called "chryselephantine;" that is, composed of ivory and gold; the parts representing flesh being of ivory laid on a core of wood or stone, while the drapery and other ornaments were of gold.

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  1. adjective Made of gold and ivory, as certain pieces of sculpture or artwork in ancient Greece.

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  • Inside, the ashes of the king, his chryselephantine shield, golden armour and thorax were found. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • It was of colossal dimensions, and was what the ancients called "chryselephantine;" that is, composed of ivory and gold; the parts representing flesh being of ivory laid on a core of wood or stone, while the drapery and other ornaments were of gold. —  The Age of Fable
  • What boots it to tell that the arms and vesture of this "chryselephantine" statue are of pure gold; that the flesh portions are of gleaming ivory; that Phidias has wrought the whole so nobly together that this material, too sumptuous for common artists, becomes under his assembling the perfect substance for the manifestation of deity Awestruck by the vision, though often he has seen it, Phormion stands long in reverent silence. —  A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
  • Seen thus, with the cloth-of-gold dalmatic above his pontifical tunic, the mitre surmounting his clear-cut impassive face, and the crozier held aloft in his jewelled gloves, he might have stood for a chryselephantine divinity in the porch of some pagan temple Odo, riding beside the Duke's litter, had leisure to note not only the diverse features of the procession but their varying effect on the spectators. —  The Valley of Decision
  • The chryselephantine papal standard rises high, surrounded by pennons of the civic flag. —  Ulysses
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  1. Greek khrūselephantinos : khrūs-, khrūso-, chryso- + elephās, elephant-, ivory; see elephant.

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  1. = French chryséléphantine, from Greek χρυσελεφάντινος, of gold and ivory, from χρυσός, gold, + ἐλέφας, ivory, elephant, later ἑλεφάντινος, of ivory: see elephant.
 

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/krɪsɛlɛˈfæntɪn/
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