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Definition of Alabasters
1. alabaster [n] - See also: alabaster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alabasters
Literary usage of Alabasters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History and Uses of Limestones and Marbles by Sarah Maria Burnham (1883)
"I. alabasters.—Among the decorative stones of antiquity remarkable for beauty
and elegance, vivacity of color, variety and precision of spots, ..."
2. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1820)
"... alabasters, Sfc. at Rome. By WA CADELL, FRSL & K, MWS f rp JL HE art of forming
mosaic pictures of tesselated, that is say, quadrangular pieces of ..."
3. Economic Geology; Or, Geology in Its Relations to the Arts and Manufactures by David Page (1874)
"Limestones, Marbles, alabasters, &c. Under decorative limestones, we include such
rocks as the Caen Oolite, which, being of fine texture and uniform colour, ..."
4. Last Winter in Rome by Charles Richard Weld (1865)
"... Number of Specimens of Ancient Marbles—alabasters —Purposes to which Marble
Fragments may I* applied—Good yielding \7eins of Fragmentary Marble'—' ..."
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