Chryselephantine vs Alician - What's the difference?
chryselephantine | alician |
Made of gold and ivory.
* 1885': I drew near and perceived that the light came from a precious stone as big as an ostrich egg, set at the upper end of the alcove upon a little '''chryselephantine couch of ivory and gold; and this jewel, blazing like the sun, cast its rays wide and side. — Sir Richard Burton, ''The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 17