alabaster

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It was all function, sleek jagged lines like a panther cut out of alabaster.

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Quick take

a compact fine-textured, usually white gypsum used for carving

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a compact fine-textured, usually white gypsum used for carving

noun

a hard compact kind of calcite

noun

a very light white

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for alabaster.

noun

a compact fine-textured, usually white gypsum used for carving

noun

a hard compact kind of calcite

noun

a very light white

adjective

of or resembling alabaster; "alabaster statue"

Example sentences

It was all function, sleek jagged lines like a panther cut out of alabaster.

When running that command, I get output like this: grep: alabaster: No such file or directory grep: appdirs: No such file or directory grep: arandr: No such file or directory for dozens and dozens of packages.

How could you draw a circle around it and say, “This, this is the culture, and so it will remain?” A culture wasn’t a final product, like a cup of coffee in alabaster, or a sordid climax in an execution alley.

I suppose one could see it as a devotion of sorts:"While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard.

Their immense spinning cylinders denuded the endosperm and discarded the germ and bran, producing virtually unspoilable alabaster flour composed entirely of endosperm.