A box looks like a box--- its a square container. An alabaster box is a square container made out of alabaster. Alabaster is a stone, generally white with shadow markings in it. It can be translucent.
A box looks like a box--- its a square container. An alabaster box is a square container made out of alabaster. Alabaster is a stone, generally white with shadow markings in it. It can be translucent.
An alabaster box is a box made of alabaster (a mineral). To find out more about alabaster, please see this site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabaster
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Alabaster is a kind of mineral, and so an alabaster box is made of alabaster. The word "alabaster" can refer to two different minerals. One is gypsum, the same stuff as found inside of drywall sheets, and as anyone who has ever put a hole in their wall knows, gypsum is extremely soft. This means that an alabaster box will probably not be made of gypsum. The other mineral given that name is a kind of marble which is very hard, and so this is the kind of mineral we're talking about when we think of an "alabaster box." Alabaster is usually white, sometimes marked with browns or tans.
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Her skin was smooth and white like virgin alabaster.
Her hair was like alabaster, flowing white-blonde around her shoulders.
Epoxy will glue alabaster to alabaster.
Alabaster. :D
they look like a box with jelly on it.
Hull Wesley Butler has written: 'The alabaster box'
"Alabaster skin" is a metaphor comparing a marble-like substance with a (usually woman's) skin - the purest alabaster is snow-white and translucent - that is, having a slightly see-through quality.