Look up: Alabaster

1. Alabaster
   A Shaker dish of mashed potatoes and turnips, name after its silvery white color.
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2. alabaster
   [adj] - of or resembling alabaster 2. [n] - a hard compact kind of calcite 3. [n] - a compact fine-textured usually white gypsum used for carving 4. [n] - a very light white
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3. alabaster
   Naturally occurring fine-grained white or light-coloured translucent form of gypsum, often streaked or mottled. A soft material, it is easily carved, but seldom used for outdoor sculpture. ...
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4. Alabaster
   A soft stone that could be carved to make an effigy. It was a major Medieval industry in the Chellastone area, near Derby and Nottingham. Many pieces were exported abroad - both carved, for religious objects (such as a crucifix), and un-carved.
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5. Alabaster
   A fine-grained marble-like variety of gypsum, alabaster is a soft stone often white or translucent.
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6. Alabaster
   a fine-grained variety of gypsum, white, yellowish white or reddish brown and translucent, it was cut into thin laminae, and used for church windows in the Middle Ages. Latterly, easily carved, it was used for internal decorative sculpture.
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7. Alabaster
   Al'a·bas'ter noun [ Latin alabaster , Greek ..., said to be derived from Alabastron , the name of a town in Egypt, near which it was common: confer Old French alabastre , French albâtre .] 1. (Min.) (a)
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8. alabaster
   1. <chemical> 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 col...
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9. alabaster
   alabastrine adjective of or resembling alabaster; `alabaster statue`
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10. alabaster
    noun a very light white
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11. alabaster
    noun a compact fine-textured, usually white gypsum used for carving
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12. alabaster
    onyx marble noun a hard compact kind of calcite
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13. Alabaster
    • (n.) 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. • (n.) A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and u...
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14. alabaster
    fine-grained, massive gypsum (q.v.) that has been used for centuries for statuary, carvings, and other ornaments. It normally is snow-white and ... [4 related articles]
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15. Alabaster
    Alabaster is British rhyming slang for plaster.
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16. Alabaster
    Since the Middle Ages the term alabaster has been applied to a compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of a fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or grey. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc. In ancient times the term alabaster was applied to ...
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17. Alabaster
    Alabaster is British rhyming slang for plaster.
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18. alabaster
    alabaster, fine-grained, massive, translucent variety of gypsum, a hydrous calcium sulfate. It is pure white or streaked with reddish brown. Alabaster, like all other forms of gypsum, forms by the evaporation of bedded deposits that are precipitated mainly from evaporating seawater. It is soft enoug...
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19. alabaster
    Naturally occurring fine-grained white or light-coloured translucent form of gypsum, often streaked or mottled. A soft material, it is easily carved, but seldom used for outdoor sculpture
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20. Alabaster
    soft, fine grained translucent stone: white or pastel coloured gypsum, often with streaks of deeper colour: breaks and scratches easily
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21. Alabaster
    `Alabaster` is a name applied to varieties of two distinct minerals, when used as a material: gypsum (a hydrous sulfate of calcium) and calcite (a carbonate of calcium). The former is the alabaster of the present day; generally, the latter is the alabaster of the ancients. Both are easy to work, wit...
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22. Alabaster
    (book) `Alabaster` is dark fantasy and science fiction author Caitlin R. Kiernan`s fourth collection of short fiction. It consists of five stories concerning the misadventures of Dancy Flammarion, the albino girl and monster hunter who first appeared in Kiernan`s 2001 novel, Thresho...
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23. Alabaster
    (disambiguation) `Alabaster` is a name applied to certain minerals, mainly gypsum (a hydrous sulfate of calcium) and calcite (a carbonate of calcium). It may also refer to: Alabaster can also be an English surname, originally meaning someone who provided armed service with a crossbow: References : <references/>
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