your neck is like an ivory tower

The interconfessional Chichewa translation (publ. 1999) uses the ideophone see in Song of Songs 7:4 to describe the notion of long, straight, smooth, and elegant (“your neck stands tall and straight like an ivory tower”). (Source: Ernst Wendland)

Ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages. (Source: Philip Noss)

See also your kisses go down smoothly and your nose is like a tower of Lebanon.

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