Term Gallery logo

Meanings of ivory carving in English

Russian
резьба по слоновой кости
Spanish
marfil
Catalan
eborària

Carving of animal tooth or tusk by using sharp cutting tools.

          Related terms
          резьба по слоновой кости
          Usage of ivory carving in English
          1
          She took the ivory carving, holding it carefully, and examined it.
          The Mammoth Hunters
          2
          Her heart skipped a beat when she saw the ivory carving.
          The Mammoth Hunters
          3
          It releases a portion of that stockpile each year to government-licensed ivory carving factories.
          Reuters
          4
          The ivory carving is of the tenth or eleventh century, the border early thirteenth.
          English Book Collectors
          5
          It was an ivory carving just as he had described the millionaire's to me.
          The Gentle Grafter
          6
          The skill with which ivory carving was done in that early time is indeed amazing.
          Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898
          7
          She stood suddenly erect, pallid as an ivory carving.
          Pygmalion's Spectacles
          8
          And he saw Eudav the son of Caradawc, sitting on a chair of ivory carving chessmen.
          The Mabinogion
          9
          The other rooms contain a varied collection of porcelain, embroidery, wood and ivory carving, and prints.
          An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition / Explanations of the Arch...
          10
          Set in the foreground, like an ivory carving, was the Government Theatre, while away beyond it loomed the Tivoli.
          The Ne'er-Do-Well
          11
          Bernward of Hildesheim had a branch for ivory carving in his celebrated academy, to which allusion has been made.
          Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages / A Description of Mediaeval ...
          12
          In the southern Congo basin iron and copper are worked; also wood and ivory carving and pottery making are pursued.
          The Negro
          13
          It is a curious ivory carving, and is a puzzle which I should like to challenge any one to explain.
          St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878
          14
          Among the marine bric-a-brac that lines our window-sills, a remarkable set of teeth catches the light like an elaborate ivory carving.
          The Irish Times
          15
          You can't melt down a picture or an ivory carving, and you can't put them on the market as they stand.
          John Thorndyke's Cases / related by Christopher Jervis and edite...
          16
          He brought out a netsuke, the ivory carving of the good Dragon, for emphasis, and Mamoru seemed moved by it, but only for an instant.
          Samurai
          This collocation consists of:
          Translations for ivory carving
          Catalan
          eborària
          Ivory carving through the time