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Oriental alabaster   /ˌɔriˈɛntəl ˈæləbˌæstər/   Listen
Oriental alabaster

noun
1.
A hard compact kind of calcite.  Synonyms: alabaster, Mexican onyx, onyx marble.






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"Oriental alabaster" Quotes from Famous Books



... substance, the "alabaster'' of scripture, is often termed Oriental alabaster, since the early examples came from the East. The Greek name alabastrites is said to be derived from the town of Alabastron, in Egypt, where the stone was quarried, but the locality probably owed its name to the mineral; the origin of the mineral-name is obscure, and it has been suggested ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... in a wilderness. Ivy began to creep over them. The costly marble mantle of their walls dropped away in pieces or was plundered for use. The Mosaic pavements split. There were still in those beautiful chambers seats of bright or dark marble, baths of porphyry or Oriental alabaster. But these found their way by degrees to churches. They served for episcopal chairs, or to receive the bones of a saint, or to become baptismal fonts. Yet not a few remained in their desolation till the walls dropped down upon them, or the dust covered ...
— The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI - The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I • Thomas W. (Thomas William) Allies



Words linked to "Oriental alabaster" :   onyx marble, Mexican onyx, alabaster, calcite



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