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chryselephantine

  (krĭ-sĕl'ə-făn'tēn', -tīn')

Made of gold and ivory, as certain pieces of sculpture or artwork in ancient Greece.

[Greek khrūselephantinos : khrūs-, khrūso-, chryso- + elephās, elephant-, ivory; see elephant.]

Made of gold and ivory; descriptive of statues of divinities, like Zeus at Olympia, with ivory for the flesh and gold for the drapery, on a wooden armature.

chryselephantine (‘of gold and ivory’), term used to describe certain Greek statues made of wood overlaid with gold and ivory, such as Pheidias' statue of Athena in the Parthenon.