alabaster
alabaster
englanti(mineraali) alabasteri
Synonyymisanakirja
alabaster
valkoinen, valkoisuus, valkea, alabasteri, itämainen alabasteri, meksikolainen onyksi, onyksimarmori, kipsi, kalsiitti.
Liittyvät sanat: alabasteri.
Rimmaavat sanat
alabaster rimmaa näiden kanssa:
tonic water, copywriter, bitter, babysitter...
Englannin sanakirja
alabaster (englanti > suomi)
alabaster englanniksi
A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.
c. 1596, (w), http://shakespeare.mit.edu/merchant/full.html The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene I, lines 89-90
1867 w:Dante Alghhieri|Dante Alghieri, w:The Divine Comedy|The Divine Comedy, Paradiso, http://books.google.com/books?id=f-i1fbaWdosC&dq=henry+wadsworth+longfellow+divine+comedy&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=ymKK8fmMU1&sig=WMzEUhDH3QodDN_3Z7tQY40VNSQ&hl=en&ei=GMcrSrysFJiuNY3bxOoJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1PPA539,M1 Canto XV, lines 22-23 (translated by w:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"|Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
1915, The New York Times, "http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9900E2DC153AE633A25756C1A9659C946496D6CF Egyptian Antiquities for Metropolitan" (pdf), 15 May
puhekieltä A variety of calcite, translucent and sometimes banded.
Made of alabaster
The crown is stored in an alabaster box with an onyx handle and a gold lock.
1611, King James Version of the Bible, Mark 14:3
(quote-book)|title=Seafarers: The Venetians|page=41|passage=An enameled miniature of Christ is set in the center of a jeweled alabaster paten, the plate that holds the bread during Communion services.
Resembling alabaster: white, pale, translucent.
An ominous alabaster fog settled in the valley.
1594, William Shakespeare, "http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_Lucrece The Rape of Lucrece", lines 418-420
before 1887, Emily Dickinson, "http://www.bartleby.com/113/4004.html Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers"
1895, Katherine Lee Bates, "w:America the Beautiful|America the Beautiful"
a box, tapering to a point at the top, for perfumes or unguents
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