A section of coastal western Africa along the Gulf of Guinea roughly corresponding to present-day Côte d'Ivoire. It was named for the large quantities of ivory traded there in precolonial times.
Ivory Coast
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I·vo·ry Coast (ī'və-rē, īv'rē) 
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