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Color:
Ivory


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Colors with the same hue:
Murky Green
Oregano
Citrus
Citron
Acid green
Old silver
Dingy Gray
Stone
Bitter lemon
Sickly Yellow
Pear
Dandelion
Tarnished Silver
Hazy
Very pale yellow
Beige
Faded Yellow
Pale Yellow
Cotton
Baby powder
Similar colors:
Cotton
Baby powder
Beige
Pale Yellow
Milk
Hazy
Alabaster
Dun
Celestial White
Lotion
Soft Ivory
Faded Yellow
Cornsilk
Eggshell
Limestone
Cream
Soft White
Morning Mist
Parchment
Beryl
Perlino
Oyster
Bleached White
Wan White
Chalk
Pearl
Old lace
Blonde
Platinum
Birch
Words evoked by this color:
whyte,  troth,  lace,  slightest,  pallor,  whither,  reverently,  creamy,  cream,  fitzpatrick,  boney,  egghead,  tartar,  cyst,  pallid,  barest,  sake,  beforehand,  supplicant,  fair,  fairer,  caucasian,  neoclassical,  parchment,  netsuke,  pavlov,  mantelpiece,  homily,  conceivable,  complexion,  sheath,  complection,  skin,  classicism,  accrete,  columnar,  georgian,  slip,  cleavage,  body_and_soul,  cameo,  pilaster,  parthenon,  pediment,  colonnade,  inherited,  archival,  parentage,  prose,  prologue
Literary analysis:
Ivory is often deployed in literature as both a literal material and a powerful symbol of refined beauty and antiquity. Its presence ranges from evoking opulent artifacts—as in carved ornaments and stately furnishings—to highlighting delicate human features, where it suggests a luminous, almost otherworldly quality in skin or teeth [1, 2]. Authorial voices frequently imbue objects made of ivory with hints of classical grandeur and mysterious allure, whether describing a mythic "ivory shoulder" that recalls heroic pasts [3] or setting an elegant, almost surreal scene with "ivory tables" that glow with an ethereal light [4]. In this way, ivory transcends its physical substance to convey both material luxury and the timeless elegance celebrated throughout literary history.
  1. My hair is of midnight darkness and my skin is a clear ivory pallor.
    — from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
  2. Her mouth, the vermilion of her lips, and her ivory teeth were all perfect.
    — from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
  3. or by whom Hath not the tale been told of Hylas young, Latonian Delos and Hippodame, And Pelops for his ivory shoulder famed, Keen charioteer?
    — from The Georgics by Virgil
  4. Light torches, bring forth the ivory tables, and the tables of jasper.
    — from Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act by Oscar Wilde


Colors associated with the word:
Cream
Beige
Off-White
Pearl
Alabaster
Ecru
Bone
Linen
Vanilla
Eggshell
Champagne
Sand
Light Taupe
Pale gold
Antique white
Soft White
Oyster
Buff
Words with similar colors:
parmesan,  mashed,  ream,  noodle,  yeast,  scallop,  chowder,  ziti,  tapioca,  grits,  bagasse,  matzo,  khadi,  churned,  pasting,  fat,  substitute,  plaster,  whey,  brie
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