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- noun Obsolete spelling of
ivory .
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Examples
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Affricke: neither were the like seene in the Tryumphes of the conquest of India; their tronckes armed with deadly teeth of yuory, passing on theyr way and drawing together, making a pleasant braying or noyse.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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If Pearles, hir teeth be pearles both pure and round; if Yuorie, her forhead yuory weene; if Gold, her locks are finest gold on ground; if siluer, her faire hands are siluer sheene,
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