Definition of Oriental alabaster

1. Noun. A hard compact kind of calcite.

Exact synonyms: Alabaster, Mexican Onyx, Onyx Marble
Generic synonyms: Calcite

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oriental Alabaster

orichalchum
orichalcs
orichalcum
orichas
orickite
oriel
oriel window
orielled
oriels
oriencies
oriency
orient
orientability
orientable
oriental
oriental alabaster (current term)
oriental bittersweet
oriental bush cherry
oriental cherry
oriental cholangio-hepatitis
oriental cockroach
oriental food
oriental person
oriental plane
oriental poppy
oriental roach
oriental spruce
oriental sweetgum
oriental turtle dove
oriental turtle doves

Literary usage of Oriental alabaster

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"This substance, the "- alabaster " of scripture, is often termed oriental alabaster, since the early examples came from the East. ..."

2. Engraved Gems: Their History and Place in Art, in which is Embodied the by Maxwell Sommerville (1889)
"oriental alabaster—Trajan giving a King to the Parthians. ... oriental alabaster—Trajan Bestowing the Conciario—the distribution of grain to the people. ..."

3. A Glossary of Mineralogy by Henry William Bristow (1861)
"True Alabaster is a sulphate of lime, but oriental alabaster is a ... Oriental Alabaster is generally clouded and zoned in a concentric manner; ..."

4. Modern Egypt and Thebes: Being a Description of Egypt; Including the by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, Gardner Wilkinson (1843)
"THE DESERTS EAST OF THE NILE. Arab Tribes — Monasteries of St. Antony and St. Paid. — oriental alabaster. — Rocks.—Porj>hyry Quarries and Ruins. ..."

5. Handbook of Archæology: Egyptian--Greek--Etruscan--Roman by Hodder Michael Westropp (1867)
"The murra and the onyx (oriental alabaster), however, bear a resemblance to one another, as they are striped, and exhibit zones and bands of various strata. ..."

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