CHRYSELEPHANTINE


Meaning of CHRYSELEPHANTINE in English

/kris'el euh fan"tin, -tuyn/ , adj.

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

[ 1820-30; chryselephántinos, equiv. to chrys- CHRYS- + elephántinos ( elephant-, s. of eléphas ELEPHANT, ivory + -inos -INE 1 ]

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