What's the difference between alabaster and alabastrine?

Alabaster


Definition:

  • (n.) A compact variety or sulphate of lime, or gypsum, of fine texture, and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc.
  • (n.) A hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster.
  • (n.) A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Among other Hepworths on show is Sculpture With Profiles, a curvaceously hewn piece of white alabaster on which eyes and noses have been etched.
  • (2) It's not to do with having a perfect profile or alabaster teeth."
  • (3) Martin is a pale and slender woman in her early 20s; an alabaster saint who looks as if she would crack if you leaned on her too hard.
  • (4) One is a simple drawing of a heart, which Emin now wants to make in pink alabaster.
  • (5) He points at the rows of carved sphinxes, busts of Nefertiti and various pharaohs that line the shop, themselves symbols of Egyptian industry: black granite from Aswan, sparkling white alabaster from Luxor, or stones from Sinai, Sohag and Minya, all carved by local artisans .
  • (6) "I'm sure the first alabaster heart will be a disaster, I'd have to keep working at it, but it's about me being driven by myself," she says.
  • (7) Graham Alabaster, senior adviser, WHO-UNHabitat , Geneva, Switzerland.
  • (8) Not football: If there's a better way to pass the time before kick-off than watching a pasty, alabaster white Irishman gadding about in a boat off the coast of Spain with three elite British Olympic athletes , this minute-by-minute reporter can't think of one.
  • (9) In contrast, all 19 babies with a previous family history of melanoma had a fair complexion (blond or light brown hair and alabaster skin color) but no congenital melanocytic nevi.
  • (10) Two large mannequin suppliers said their most popular color is alabaster white, although it used to be “flesh tone” – that is, flesh-toned if you are white.

Alabastrine


Definition:

  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, alabaster; as alabastrine limbs.

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