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- noun Obsolete spelling of
ivory .
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Examples
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Why should I not touch her yvory breast, the Adamant that drew all desires to adore her?
The Decameron 2004
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In the inventory of the Church of St. Mary Hill, London, was mentioned, in the fifteenth century, "a lytill yvory cofyr with relyks."
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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Mortimer, "a lyttle long box of yvory, with an ymage of Our ladye therein closed."
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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Out of the yvory pallaces whereby they made thee glad:
Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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a goodly table of pure yvory: all spred with iuncats, fit to entertayne, the greatest Prince with pompous roialty.
bilby commented on the word yvory
Y lyke it!
December 18, 2023