Atlantic stoneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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Atlantic stone (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) ivory
   • 1671, John Milton, Paradise Regained, Book IV, lines 109 to 121.

     To whom the Son of God unmov'd replied. / Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show / Of luxury, though call'd magnificence, / More than of arms before, allure mine eye, / Much less my mind; though thou should'st add to tell / Their sumptuous gluttonies and gorgeous feasts / On citron tables or Atlantick stone, / For I have also heard, perhaps have read, / Their wines of Setia, Cales, and Falerne, / Chios, and Crete, and how they quaff in gold, / Crystal and myrrhine cups emboss'd with gems / And studs of pearl, to me should'st tell who thirst / And hunger still. […]