alabaster

About 0.52 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.
2. noun A variety of calcite, translucent and sometimes banded.
3. noun A sculpture executed in alabaster.
4. noun An off-white color, like that of alabaster.

   alabaster:

5. adjective Made of alabaster.

   The crown is stored in an alabaster box with an onyx handle and a gold lock.

6. adjective Resembling alabaster; white, pale, smooth, translucent.

   An ominous alabaster fog settled in the valley.

Similar words

onyx marble mexican onyx oriental alabaster gypseous alablaster alabastre albarium alum stone agalite plaster-stone

Often followed by

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Word family

Alabaster alabasters alabastrine