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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈʌɪvəɹiːn/

形容詞

ivorine (comparative more ivorine, superlative most ivorine)

1. (obsolete) Made of ivory.
2. Resembling ivory; white, smooth.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 162:

     All Van saw there of his new Ada were her ivorine thighs and haunches, and the very first time he clasped them she bade him, in the midst of his vigorous joy, to glance across her shoulder over the window ledge [...].

名詞

ivorine (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 ivorines)

1. A type of man-made imitation ivory.