ivoriness

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English

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Etymology

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From ivory +‎ -ness.

Noun

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ivoriness (uncountable)

  1. Quality of being ivory in colour.
    • 1929, Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan:
      What interested men in Felicia was the warm ivoriness of her, faintly flushed with rose; the gray, greeny-blue eyes mysterious as opals; the small proud head shaped as were Greek heads of old []

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