alabaster

alabaster

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1. (mineraali) alabasteri

Synonyymisanakirja: alabaster

alabaster

1. valkoinen, valkoisuus, valkea, alabasteri, itämainen alabasteri, meksikolainen onyksi, onyksimarmori, kipsi, kalsiitti.

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Riimisanakirja: alabaster

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1. tonic water, copywriter, bitter, babysitter...

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Käännökset: alabaster

alabaster suomeksi

alabasteri-, alabasterimainen, alabasteri

• alabasteri

• alabasteri|alt=alabasteri-, alabasterinen

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

Why should a man, whose blood is warm within,

Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?

• 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

Nor was the flame dissevered from its ribbon

But like a radiant fillet ran along

So that fire seemed it behind alabaster.

• 1915, The New York Times, "http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9900E2DC153AE633A25756C1A9659C946496D6CF Egyptian Antiquities for Metropolitan" (pdf), 15 May

One of the striking relics found at the tomb, was a Canopic portrait head of Queen Tii, made entirely of alabaster except the eyes and eyebrows, which were inlaid lapis lazuli and osidian.

• 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

And being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.

• (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

With more than admiration he admir’d

Her azure veins, her alabaster skin,

Her coral lips, her snow-white dimpled chin.

• before 1887, Emily Dickinson, "http://www.bartleby.com/113/4004.html Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers"

Safe in their alabaster chambers

Untouched by morning, untouched by noon

Sleep the meek members of the resurrection,

Rafters of satin, and roof of stone.

• 1895, Katherine Lee Bates, "w:America the Beautiful|America the Beautiful"

Thy alabaster cities gleam

Undimmed by human tears!

• a box, tapering to a point at the top, for perfumes or unguents

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