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"etymology_text": "From Middle English alabastre, from Old French alabastre, from Latin alabaster (“box for perfume made of alabaster”), from Ancient Greek ἀλάβαστρος (alábastros), from earlier ἀλάβαστος (alábastos, “vase made of alabaster”). This may further derive from Egyptian ꜥj-r-bꜣstjt (“vessel of the Egyptian goddess Bast”). The Latin suffix -aster is unrelated, but may have influenced the spelling of the borrowing from Ancient Greek (whence a direct loan could have been rendered as *alabastrus).",
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"text": "The crown is stored in an alabaster box with an onyx handle and a gold lock.",
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 14:3:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1980, Colin Thubron, Seafarers: The Venetians, page 41:",
"text": "An enameled miniature of Christ is set in the center of a jeweled alabaster paten, the plate that holds the bread during Communion services.",
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"Made of alabaster."
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"text": "An ominous alabaster fog settled in the valley.",
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"ref": "1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, lines 418-420:",
"text": "With more than admiration he admir’d\nHer azure veins, her alabaster skin,\nHer coral lips, her snow-white dimpled chin.",
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"ref": "a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “[Book IV.—Time and Eternity] Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers”, in Mabel Loomis Todd and T[homas] W[entworth] Higginson, editors, Poems, First Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1890, →OCLC, page 113:",
"text": "Safe in their alabaster chambers\nUntouched by morning, untouched by noon\nSleep the meek members of the resurrection,\nRafters of satin, and roof of stone.",
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{
"ref": "1895, “America the Beautiful”, Katharine Lee Bates (lyrics), Samuel A. Ward (music):",
"text": "Thine alabaster cities gleam\nUndimmed by human tears!",
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"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "alebastre",
"sense": "made of alabaster",
"word": "ալեբաստրե"
},
{
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"sense": "made of alabaster",
"word": "alabastrí"
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"sense": "made of alabaster",
"word": "albasten"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "made of alabaster",
"word": "alabastra"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "made of alabaster",
"word": "alabasteri-"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "made of alabaster",
"word": "alabasterinen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "made of alabaster",
"word": "alabastern"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
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"sense": "made of alabaster",
"word": "αλαβάστρινος"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "made of alabaster",
"word": "alabástrom"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "made of alabaster",
"word": "alabastrowy"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "alebástrovyj",
"sense": "made of alabaster",
"word": "алеба́стровый"
}
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