Oriental alabaster
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Oriental alabaster
First recorded in 1750–60
Example Sentences
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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
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
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)
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
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)
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