{ "ivory nut":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": the nutlike seed of a South American palm ( Phytelephas macrocarpa ) containing a very hard endosperm used for carving and turning \u2014 compare vegetable ivory":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "circa 1847, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-161034" }, "ivory palm":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a palm yielding ivory nuts":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-161337" }, "ivory-leaves":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": wintergreen sense 2a":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-170225" }, "ivory plum":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": creeping snowberry":[], ": the fruit of creeping snowberry":[], ": wintergreen sense 2a":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-204902" }, "ivory black":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a fine black pigment made by calcining ivory":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "Learn about mixing colors accurately, the Munsell Color System, creating a natural value scale using blacks and whites and creating a Zom palette using four colors: while, yellow ochre, cadmium red and ivory black . \u2014 Hartford Courant , 27 May 2022", "My Princeton painting classes took me to museums, to Philip Guston\u2019s cadmium red, ivory black , and titanium white cigar-smoking Klansmen and John Currin\u2019s skinny, huge breasted naked white women the color of supermarket peach flesh. \u2014 Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads , 20 June 2018" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1634, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-221627" }, "ivory-billed woodpecker":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a very large black-and-white woodpecker ( Campephilus principalis ) of the southeastern U.S. and Cuba that has a showy red crest in the male and is presumed extinct in the U.S.":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8\u012bv-r\u0113-\u02c8bild-", "\u02c8\u012b-v\u0259-r\u0113-" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1811, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-013907" }, "ivorybill":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": ivory-billed woodpecker":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8\u012bv-r\u0113-\u02ccbil", "\u02c8\u012b-v\u0259-r\u0113-" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "Recent Examples on the Web", "It has not been seen since 1988 and is now presumed to have joined the passenger pigeon and the ivorybill . \u2014 Annie Proulx, The New Yorker , 27 June 2022" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1787, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-051220" }, "ivory gull":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a gull ( Pagophila eburnea ) that is circumpolar in distribution and migrates as far south as New Brunswick and England":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-053702" }, "ivory-dome":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": bonehead":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-072953" }, "ivory":{ "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": the hard creamy-white modified dentine that composes the tusks of a tusked mammal (such as an elephant, walrus, or narwhal)":[], ": a tusk that yields ivory":[], ": a variable color averaging a pale yellow":[], ": tooth":[], ": something (such as a piano key) made of ivory or of a similar substance":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8\u012bv-r\u0113", "\u02c8\u012bv-(\u0259-)r\u0113", "\u02c8\u012b-v\u0259-r\u0113" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "a carved piece of ivory", "Recent Examples on the Web", "Last year, archaeologists revealed fragments of a gold mask, traces of silk, bronzeware adorned with depictions of animals, ivory carvings and other artifacts. \u2014 Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine , 14 June 2022", "Afterward, the family of four headed to the Platinum Party at the Palace in front of Buckingham Palace, where Kate stunned in an ivory ensemble. \u2014 Sophie Dweck, Town & Country , 5 June 2022", "Each one sat in silence in the atrium of his own house, on the ivory throne that symbolized his high office, his hands holding the insignia of imperium\u2014high command. \u2014 Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books , 23 Mar. 2022", "At the heart of both the book and the show is an exquisite group of Japanese netsuke\u2014 ivory carvings used as kimono ornaments\u2014acquired, in the nineteenth century, by an ancestor of de Waal\u2019s, the French art historian Charles Ephrussi. \u2014 The New Yorker , 12 Nov. 2021", "Many of the bedrooms, especially the primary suite, wouldn\u2019t look out of place in a five-star hotel, with sumptuous drapery and a white-and- ivory color palette that allows the greenery through the windows to take center stage. \u2014 Emma Reynolds, Robb Report , 20 June 2022", "This bohemian-style mirror doubles as wall art with its intricate macrame fringe border, which is available in three hues: ivory , black, and khaki. \u2014 Emily Belfiore, Travel + Leisure , 13 June 2022", "Thailand still has an active black market for ivory , and lately there has been a flourishing trade in elephant skin, used in Chinese traditional medicine. \u2014 Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker , 28 Feb. 2022", "Mugler\u2019s Casey Cadwallader was tapped for the third look of the night\u2014an ivory catsuit with a sheer bustier and matching pants that flared out into bell bottoms. \u2014 Alexandra Macon, Vogue , 24 May 2022" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "Middle English ivorie , from Anglo-French ivoire, ivurie , from Latin eboreus of ivory, from ebor-, ebur ivory, from Egyptian \u02be\u0339 b , \u02be\u0339 bw elephant, ivory":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-082639" }, "ivory board":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a highly finished paperboard coated on both sides":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-093632" }, "ivory coral":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": any of several hard and branching madrepores (family Oculinidae) with widely spaced polyps and firm skeleton":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-112422" }, "ivory-towered":{ "type":[ "adjective" ], "definitions":{ ": divorced from reality and practical matters":[ "an ivory-towered recluse" ] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8\u012bv-r\u0113-\u02c8tau\u0307(-\u0259)rd", "\u02c8\u012b-v\u0259-r\u0113-" ], "synonyms":[ "academic", "academical", "ivory-tower", "ivory-towerish" ], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "1937, in the meaning defined above":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-145518" }, "ivory-tower":{ "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": an impractical often escapist attitude marked by aloof lack of concern with or interest in practical matters or urgent problems":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "The book was written by some college professor who's spent her entire professional life in an ivory tower .", "Recent Examples on the Web", "Haglund also stressed that not all the most interesting work is relegated to the ivory tower . \u2014 Tamarra Kemsley, The Salt Lake Tribune , 2 June 2022", "One of the longest-serving chancellors in recent UW-Madison history, Blank brought stability to an institution that has sometimes been used as a political punching bag and viewed as an ivory tower of elitism. \u2014 Kelly Meyerhofer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 11 May 2022", "Her playing, however, is light-years away from the ivory tower . \u2014 Washington Post , 15 Feb. 2022", "The Left is a ticking time bomb, and the Right shows little sympathy for those purged by the ivory tower . \u2014 Aron Ravin, National Review , 3 Apr. 2022", "Of course, Childs could have entered the federal judiciary's ivory tower years ago. \u2014 Bakari Sellers, CNN , 4 Feb. 2022", "This hybrid practice repeatedly took him out of the academic ivory tower and into rural Africa, the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and hip-hop clubs in the Bronx. \u2014 New York Times , 12 Dec. 2021", "Theatre takes science and technology out of the ivory tower and places it in an environment where people can engage directly and interact. \u2014 Stephan Rabimov, Forbes , 8 Nov. 2021", "By showing pure streetwear in a fashion show context Abloh\u2019s Off-White breached the dam between fashion\u2019s ivory tower and the street\u2019s more inverted forms of sneakerhead discernment. \u2014 Luke Leitch, Vogue , 28 Nov. 2021" ], "history_and_etymology":{ "translation of French tour d'ivoire":"" }, "first_known_use":{ "1894, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-170106" }, "Ivory Coast":{ "type":[ "adjective or noun", "geographical name", "noun" ], "definitions":{ "region of western Africa bordering on the Atlantic west of the Gold Coast":[], "c\u00f4te d'ivoire":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-195213" }, "ivorine":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a substance resembling ivory in color and texture":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8\u012bv\u0259\u02ccr\u0113n" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "from Ivorine , a trademark":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-195950" }, "ivory brown":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a brown pigment made by partially carbonizing ivory":[], ": bone brown sense 2":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-222729" }, "ivoried":{ "type":[ "adjective" ], "definitions":{ ": made of or covered with ivory":[], ": resembling ivory (as in color, smoothness)":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8\u012bv(\u0259)r\u0113d", "-rid" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-002813" }, "ivory shell":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": any of several tropical whelks (family Buccinidae) with ivory-white shells spotted and mottled with orange or brown or red":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-011002" } }