Oriental alabaster

American  

noun

1. alabaster.

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Etymology

Origin of Oriental alabaster

First recorded in 1750–60

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Oriental alabaster

There were still in those beautiful chambers seats of bright or dark marble, baths of porphyry or Oriental alabaster.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

A variety of carbonate of lime, closely resembling alabaster in appearance, is used for similar purposes under the name of Oriental alabaster.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various

The Oriental alabaster was highly esteemed for making small perfume-bottles or ointment vases called alabastra; and this has been conjectured to be a possible source of the name.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

One of the side chapels has four doors executed in Oriental alabaster, together with simulated hangings in rosso antico, the fringe being carved in giallo.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe

The baldacchino above the high altar of St. Paul's is supported by four splendid columns of Oriental alabaster presented to Gregory XVI. by Mehemet Ali, the viceroy of Egypt.

From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan

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