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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A very pale and rather cool yellow, almost white, resembling the color of ivory.

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Examples

  • And above the ticking clock, extruding from the ice like something struggling to gain its freedom from the iceberg, was the white-furred head and ivory-yellow teeth of a monster.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • He set his ivory-yellow face, serene and untroubled, towards the beckoning Hills; his shadow shouldering far before him in the dust.

    Kim 2003

  • Dom Miguel's mouth fell open; the colour slowly ebbed from his cheeks, leaving them an ivory-yellow; his eyes dilated and protruded.

    The Snare Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • Mrs. Cheyne had been looking at the faces -- Disko's ivory-yellow, hairless, iron countenance; Uncle Salters's, with its rim of agricultural hair; Penn's bewildered simplicity; Manuel's quiet smile;

    Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • He set his ivory-yellow face, serene and untroubled, towards the beckoning Hills; his shadow shouldering far before him in the dust.

    Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • He spilt quite a quantity of choice mixture over the long, ivory-yellow nail of his lean, delicate thumb as he looked consciously aside from the great scornful grey eyes that judged and questioned and condemned him as a mercenary old gentleman.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • Madam Cavendish was down that morning, sitting at table with her stick beside her, her head topped with a great tower of snowy cap, her old face now ivory-yellow, but with a wonderful precision of feature, for she had been a great beauty in her day, so alert and alive with the ready comprehension of her black eyes, under slightly scowling brows, that naught escaped her that was within her reach of vision.

    The Heart's Highway Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891

  • Then, all at once, the lines of dismay cleared from his lean old ivory-yellow face.

    The Lady Paramount Henry Harland 1883

  • Dr. Carretaji came about noon, a fat middleaged man, with a fringe of black hair round an ivory-yellow scalp, a massive watch-chain (adorned by the inevitable pointed bit of coral), and podgy, hairy hands.

    The Cardinal's Snuff-Box Henry Harland 1883

  • As mentioned earlier, the walls were once painted ivory-yellow with gold-lettered claims concerning advice on healthy living.

    Travel Tales in the Promised Land (Palestine) Karl Friedrich May 1877

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