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What (who) is ivory chessmen - definition

CARVED CHESS PIECES DISCOVERED ON THE ISLE OF LEWIS
Lewis Chessmen; Lewis Chess Set; Lewis chess set; Lewis chess men; The Lewis Chessmen; Uig Chessmen
  • A queen and a warder (rook) in the joint exhibition in [[Edinburgh]], 2010
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Ivory (color)         
  • Ivory-colored ''[[Cymbidium]]'' orchid
  • Ivory gull
OFF-WHITE COLOR THAT RESEMBLES IVORY
Ivory (colour)
Ivory is an off-white color named after, and derived from, the material made from the tusks and teeth of certain animals, such as the elephant and the walrus. It has a very slight tint of yellow.
fossil ivory         
  • Cylindrical ivory casket, Siculo-Arabic, [[Hunt Museum]].
  • An elaborately carved ivory tusk in [[Sa'dabad Palace]], Iran
  • An ivory [[tabernacle]] featuring the Madonna of Caress, France
  • 1900}}
  • A depiction of the [[Blessed Virgin Mary]] and the [[Child Jesus]] crafted in elephant ivory
MATERIAL DERIVED FROM THE TUSKS AND TEETH OF ANIMALS
Elephant and mammoth ivory; Elephant and Mammoth ivory; Elfenbein; Mammoth ivory; Ivory board; Elephant & mammoth ivory; Elephant ivory; List of animals that produce ivory; Fossil ivory; Synthetic ivory
¦ noun ivory from the tusks of a mammoth.
Ivory         
  • Cylindrical ivory casket, Siculo-Arabic, [[Hunt Museum]].
  • An elaborately carved ivory tusk in [[Sa'dabad Palace]], Iran
  • An ivory [[tabernacle]] featuring the Madonna of Caress, France
  • 1900}}
  • A depiction of the [[Blessed Virgin Mary]] and the [[Child Jesus]] crafted in elephant ivory
MATERIAL DERIVED FROM THE TUSKS AND TEETH OF ANIMALS
Elephant and mammoth ivory; Elephant and Mammoth ivory; Elfenbein; Mammoth ivory; Ivory board; Elephant & mammoth ivory; Elephant ivory; List of animals that produce ivory; Fossil ivory; Synthetic ivory
·noun Any carving executed in ivory.
II. Ivory ·noun Teeth; as, to show one's ivories.
III. Ivory ·noun The tusks themselves of the elephant, ·etc.
IV. Ivory ·noun The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility.

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Lewis chessmen

The Lewis chessmen (Norwegian: Lewisbrikkene; Scottish Gaelic: Fir-Tàilisg; Scots: Lewis chesmen) or Uig chessmen, named after the island or the bay where they were found, are a group of distinctive 12th-century chess pieces, along with other game pieces, most of which are carved from walrus ivory. Discovered in 1831 on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, they may constitute some of the few complete, surviving medieval chess sets, although it is not clear if a set as originally made can be assembled from the pieces. When found, the hoard contained 93 artifacts: 78 chess pieces, 14 tablemen and one belt buckle. Today, 82 pieces are owned and usually exhibited by the British Museum in London, and the remaining 11 are at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

Additionally, a newly identified piece, a "warder", the equivalent of a castle or rook, was sold for £735,000 in July 2019. Four other major pieces, and many pawns, remain missing from the chess sets.