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(n.) A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made.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.