(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:29:45

Chrys`el*e*phan"tine (?), a. [Gr. gold + made of ivory, fr. ivory, elephant.]

Composed of, or adorned with, gold and ivory.

⇒ The chryselephantine statues of the Greeks were built up with inferior materials, veneered, as it were, with ivory for the flesh, and gold decorated with color for the hair and garments.

 

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