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Definition alabaster

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French alabastre, from Latin alabaster (“box for perfume made of alabaster”), from Ancient Greek ?????????? (alábastros), from earlier ????????? (alábastos, “vase made of alabaster”). This may further derive from Egyptian ?j-r-b?stjt (“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).

Noun

alabaster (usually uncountable, plural alabasters)

1. A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.
2. (historical) A variety of calcite, translucent and sometimes banded.
3. An off-white colour, like that of alabaster.

Adjective

alabaster (not comparable)

1. Made of alabaster
2. Resembling alabaster: white, pale, translucent.

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