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- noun Obsolete spelling of
ivory .
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Examples
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Why should I not touch her yvory breast, the Adamant that drew all desires to adore her?
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In the inventory of the Church of St. Mary Hill, London, was mentioned, in the fifteenth century, "a lytill yvory cofyr with relyks."
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Mortimer, "a lyttle long box of yvory, with an ymage of Our ladye therein closed."
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Out of the yvory pallaces whereby they made thee glad:
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a goodly table of pure yvory: all spred with iuncats, fit to entertayne, the greatest Prince with pompous roialty.
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