1. alabaster - Noun
2. alabaster - Adjective
A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc.
A hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster.
A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made.
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All that was left were some broken alabaster vases, pottery and charcoal. Source: Internet
By the 15th century there was an industry exporting Nottingham alabaster altar reliefs in groups of panels over much of Europe for economical parishes who could not afford stone retables. Source: Internet
Geologists define alabaster strictly as a compact and fine-grained variety of gypsum. Source: Internet
Frankfort, 24–37 A little later there are a number of figures of large-eyed priests and worshippers, mostly in alabaster and up to a foot high, who attended temple cult images of the deity, but very few of these have survived. Source: Internet
Gypsum alabaster Gypsum alabaster is the softer of the two varieties, the other being calcite alabaster. Source: Internet