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adj. - Like fine textured white gypsum; pale or translucent.

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Usage examples (8)
  • Adjective : an alabaster column. ,her alabaster throat
  • Synelle was there, and four other women, alabastrine-skinned blondes who seemed to wear variations of one face.
  • Synelle herself traveled in a gilded litter, borne by eight muscular slaves and curtained with fine silken net to admit the breeze yet keep the sun from her alabastrine...
  • The box I set in a casket, and enclosing this in seven other caskets and seven chests, laid the whole in a alabastrine coffer,424 which I buried within the marge of yon...
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