alabaster

• adj.雪しっくい；磨かれた雪のような白さ
• n. 雪しっくい
• n.（アラバスター）人名；（英）Alabaster

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alabaster

alabaster: [14] Chaucer was the first English author to use the word alabaster: in the Knight’s Tale (1386) he writes of ‘alabaster white and red coral’. It comes, via Old French and Latin, from Greek alábast(r)os, which may be of Egyptian origin. Scottish English used the variant from alabast until the 16th century (indeed, this may predate alabaster by a few years); and from the 16th to the 17th century the word was usually spelled alablaster, apparently owing to confusion with arblaster ‘crossbowman’.

The use of alabaster for making marbles (of the sort used in children’s games) gave rise to the abbreviation alley, ally ‘marble’ in the early 18th century.

alabaster (n.)

translucent whitish kind of gypsum used for vases, ornaments, and busts, late 14c., from Old French alabastre (12c., Modern French albatre), from Latin alabaster "colored rock used to make boxes and vessels for unguents," from Greek alabastros (earlier albatos) "vase for perfumes," perhaps from Egyptian 'a-labaste "vessel of the goddess Bast." Used figuratively for whiteness and smoothness from 1570s. "The spelling in 16-17th c. is almost always alablaster ..." [OED].

1. She wore a fine chain about her alabaster neck.

彼女は繊細で滑らかで、美しく白い首に精緻なチェーンをつけている。

2.The floor was marble tile，and the columns alabaster .

床は大理石で舗装され、柱は雪花石膏で作られている。

3.The trees，the bushes and the tall ferns are carved with alabaster .

高木、低木、シダ草を問わず、玉積み氷彫刻に似ている。

4.Rosette gives the impression of alabaster wax suffused with violet.

叶弁はスミレ色に染まったマットパラフィンの質感を持っている。

5.Her skin was like alabaster .

彼女の肌はつややかで真っ白だった。