The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chryselephantine \Chrys`el*e*phan"tine\, a. [Gr. chryso`s gold + ? made of ivory, fr. ? ivory, elephant.] Composed of, or adorned with, gold and ivory.
Note: The chryselephantine statues of the Greeks were built up with inferior materials, veneered, as it were, with ivory for the flesh, and gold decorated with color for the hair and garments.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Made of gold and ivory.
Usage examples of "chryselephantine".
Certainly, if there had been a second chryselephantine statue of Athena on the Acropolis, we should know of its existence.
Generations of wealthy Pontifices Maximi had poured money and care into it, even knowing that whatever portable they gave, from chryselephantine tables to inlaid Egyptian couches, could not later be removed for the benefit of family heirs.
The chryselephantine papal standard rises high, surrounded by pennons of the civic flag.
He wore loose trousers of black silk tucked into polished half-boots, and a gold-trimmed jacket of the same material cinched by a tooled-leather belt that bore revolver and chryselephantine dagger.
His statues of divinities are not numerous: a Zeus at Argos, an Aphrodite at Amyclae, and, more famous than either, the chryselephantine Hera for a temple between Argos and Mycenae.