oriental alabaster bektaşi taşı

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alabaster
Made of alabaster

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

Resembling alabaster: white, pale, translucent

An ominous alabaster fog settled in the valley.

A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally
{n} a soft white marble
a white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum
a very light white a compact fine-textured usually white gypsum used for carving a hard compact kind of calcite
A hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite
It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc
The name is used in this sense by Pliny
so called from the stone of which it was originally made
Alabaster is a white stone that is used for making statues, vases, and ornaments. Fine-grained gypsum that has been used for centuries for statuary, carvings, and other ornaments. It normally is snow-white and translucent but can be artificially dyed; it may be made opaque and similar in appearance to marble by heat treatment. Florence, Livorno, Milan, and Berlin are important centres of the alabaster trade. The alabaster of the ancients was a brown or yellow onyx marble
A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc
A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray
a variety of calcite, translucent and sometimes banded
It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster
{i} pale translucent stone often used to create ornamental objects