alabaster
n. 雪花石膏 a. 雪花石膏制的
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A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.
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A variety of calcite, translucent and sometimes banded.
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An off-white color, like that of alabaster.
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A sculpture executed in alabaster.
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Made of alabaster.
The crown is stored in an alabaster box with an onyx handle and a gold lock.
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Resembling alabaster; white, pale, smooth, translucent.
An ominous alabaster fog settled in the valley.
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From Middle English alabastre, from Old French alabastre, from Latin alabaster (“box for perfumes or unguents”), from Ancient Greek ἀλάβαστρος (alábastros), from earlier ἀλάβαστος (alábastos, “vase without handles for storing perfumes”). This may further derive from Egyptian ꜥj-r-bꜣstjt (“vessel of the Egyptian goddess Bast”). The Latin suffix -aster is unrelated, but may have influenced the spelling of the borrowing from Ancient Greek (whence a direct loan could have been rendered as *alabastrus).
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