Oriental alabaster

American  

noun

1. alabaster.

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Etymology

Origin of Oriental alabaster

First recorded in 1750–60

Example Sentences

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 Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)

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

A splendid sarcophagus, sculptured in a single block of translucent Oriental alabaster from Alabastron, is in the Soane Museum, London.

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

Some were of common limestone, the most costly were of Oriental alabaster.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

This spacious building is lined throughout with Oriental alabaster, the exterior being covered with the same costly material.

From Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Ballou, Maturin Murray