Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Chryselephantine

Chryselephantine , adjective

[Greek chryso`s gold + {not transcribed} made of ivory, from {not transcribed} ivory, elephant.]

Composed of, or adorned with, gold and ivory.

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.