英语词汇ivory soap的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	ivory soap
词源	Ivory soap. Probably the only soap named from the Bible. In 1879, one of Proctor & Gamble’s executives was inspired in his coinage by Psalm 45: “All the garments smell of myrrh, and al- oes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.”
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