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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ivory tower

▶noun a state of privileged seclusion or separation from the facts and practicalities of the real world.

– origin early 20th cent.: translating Fr. tour d'ivoire, used by the 19th-cent. French writer Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve.

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