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Definition of Alabastrine
1. Adjective. Of or resembling alabaster. "Alabaster statue"
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
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Definition of Alabastrine
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alabastrine
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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