Alabaster is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ALABASTER in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a soft, semitransparent gypsum
• a translucent form of gypsum or calcite, typically white, often carved into ornaments.
• like alabaster in whiteness and smoothness
• made of alabaster
• soft white translucent stone
• 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• A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made.
• a compact fine-textured, usually white gypsum used for carving
• a hard compact kind of calcite
• a very light white
ADJECTIVE:
• of or resembling alabaster
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a compact fine-textured usually white and translucent gypsum often carved into vases and ornaments

Words related to ALABASTER

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Words that contain ALABASTER

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How to use ALABASTER in a sentence

• When the glorious pearl and alabaster clouds of these noonday storms are being built I never give attention to anything else.
• Her form was bewitching, and her neck was alabaster.
• The present heir is James Chaloner Alabaster, who says the deed, of which a copy is furnished, has been in the possession of his family in England about sixty years.
• Alabaster abound celebrity conglomerate commensurate constituency effective arrival successor.
• THE ROYAL LADY IS TAKING SWEET-SMELLING OINTMENT FROM AN ALABASTER VASE.
• Presently he caught his foot in one of the electric light cords and set an alabaster lamp on the mantelpiece rocking on its pedestal.
• It resembles alabaster in the form and character of its veins, and in its transparent quality.
• Owing to the facility with which alabaster can be reduced by fire to lime, very few large examples of it in Rome have escaped the ruthless kilns of the middle ages.
• There she sat like an alabaster statue, and most of the women were conscious of the exquisitely beautiful picture she made.
• The first alabaster altar glistened suddenly out of the night like a bank of snow.
• Then her dark curls, that sparkled wet, She parted from her perfect brows, And, lo, her eyes, like lamps of jet Within an alabaster house.
• I mean to have it put on an alabaster stand, and a glass case over it, and consider it the most sacred gem I possess.
• I shot down the stair, and into the hall of alabaster.
• Alabaster or stucco of rich tints covered some of the walls, while others were hung with tapestries of the gorgeous Indian feather-work.
• The charcoal, burnt beans, and slabs of half-calcined alabaster, in the British Museum, demonstrate the fulfillment of the prediction.
• Along with the gold was store of wrought ivory, amber, silver, bronze, and alabaster.
• The sun dipped lower toward the alabaster crests of distant mountain peaks.
• Her shoulders and slim graceful neck were as white as alabaster, her hair was a gorgeous brown kissed into fine gold glimmering as though with a touch of some hidden fire.
• Elias, hung above a snowy row of lesser ridges in a dome of alabaster.
• It was when the alabaster box was broken that its fine fragrance filled the house, and spread out into all the world.
• You have a right over the turf-cutting of Pillinmore, and over the alabaster quarries near Trent.
• You broke your alabaster box at his feet, and he secretly suspected that you were working for something more valuable than the box of ointment.
• Besides the natural productions of the place, there are a great variety of fine alabaster vases from Florence, with statues of various kinds of Italian marble.
• Alabaster lamps shed a pale sort of moonlight over the sleeping flowers, and splashing fountains, and marble goddesses.
• The little, plump hand was lean and bony, and wrinkles usurped the alabaster brow.

Similar words containing ALABAST without suffix er

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