Definition of Alabastrine

1. Adjective. Of or resembling alabaster. "Alabaster statue"

Exact synonyms: Alabaster
Partainyms: Alabaster, Alabaster

Definition of Alabastrine

1. a. Of, pertaining to, or like, alabaster; as alabastrine limbs.

Definition of Alabastrine

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or like, alabaster. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Alabastrine

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alabastrine

ala sacralis
ala temporalis
ala vespertilionis
ala vomeris
alaap
alaaps
alabama period
alabamine
alabamium
alabandite
alabandites
alabaster
alabasters
alabastre
alabastrian
alabastrine (current term)
alabastrum
alachlor
alachlors
alacizumab
alack
alackaday
alacranite
alacrious
alacriously
alacriousness
alacrities
alacritous
alacrity
alactic oxygen debt

Literary usage of Alabastrine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Camera and the Pencil by Marcus Aurelius Root (1864)
"The alabastrine, a positive upon glass, colored on the back of the film, and finished with a solution invented by Wharton Simpson, called his rede- veloper. ..."

2. Practical hints on photography: Its Chemistry and Its Manipulation by John Brent Hockin (1860)
"... of transferring a positive from the glass to a less frail medium, in order to render it transmissable by post, &c., has been devised : alabastrine ..."

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