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Italian
Etymology
Literally, “tower of ivory”. Compare French tour d’ivoire.
Noun
torre d'avorio f (plural torri d'avorio)
- (idiomatic) ivory tower
2020, Barack Obama, chapter 25, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:Quella sera... le suggerii che forse sarebbe stato meglio per lei uscire dalla torre d'avorio e lavorare per qualche tempo con me.- That evening... I suggested she might want to get out of the ivory tower and work with me for a spell.
- (literally, “That evening... I suggested that it might have been better for her to get out of the ivory tower and work for some time with me.”)