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alablaster

alablaster is the obsolete form of alabaster.

Meaning of alabaster

Noun

alabaster (usually uncountable, plural alabasters)

  1. (usually) A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.
    • Why ſhould a man whoſe bloud is warme within,
      Sit like his Grandſire, cut in Alabaſter?c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  2. (historical, usually) A variety of calcite, translucent and sometimes banded.
  3. (usually) A sculpture executed in alabaster.
    • Beautiful oviform vases and covers, jars and covers with flowers and foliage, Italian alabasters, copies of the antique, were ranged side by side with Chinese ginger jars and common preserve bottles of birds'eggs[…]1883, W. H. Florio Hutchisson, Pen and Pencil Sketches: Being Reminiscences During Eighteen Years' Residence in Bengal, page 247
  4. (usually) An off-white color, like that of alabaster.

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Questions about alablaster

What is alablaster the obsolete form of?
Alablaster is the obsolete form of alabaster.

Words near alablaster in the dictionary

  1. Alabat
  2. Alabay
  3. Alabays
  4. Alabel
  5. Alabi
  6. alablaster
  7. ALAC
  8. Alacalufan
  9. Alacaygan
  10. alacepril
  11. alacha

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