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ivoriness en · NOUN

Etymology

From ivory + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Quality of being ivory in colour.
    • 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[…] 1929, Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan: