ivory black

noun

Definition of ivory black

: a fine black pigment made by calcining ivory

Examples of ivory black in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

My Princeton painting classes took me to museums, to Philip Guston’s cadmium red, ivory black, and titanium white cigar-smoking Klansmen and John Currin’s skinny, huge breasted naked white women the color of supermarket peach flesh. Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, "Old In Art School," 20 June 2018

First Known Use of ivory black

1634, in the meaning defined above

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