yvory

Why should I not touch her yvory breast, the Adamant that drew all desires to adore her?

The Decameron

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

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

Out of the yvory pallaces whereby they made thee glad:

Sabbath in Puritan New England

a goodly table of pure yvory: all spred with iuncats, fit to entertayne, the greatest Prince with pompous roialty.

Amoretti and Epithalamion