alablaster

English

Noun

alablaster (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete form of alabaster.
    • 1877, Sir Philip Sidney, Alexander Balloch Grosart, The Complete Poems of Sir Philip Sidney, volume 2, page 158:
      A hill most fitte for such a master, / A spotlesse mine of alablaster: / Like alablaster faire and sleeke, / But soft and supple satten-like.
    • quoted in 1894, Miller Christy, The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe of Hull and Captain Thomas James (page 100)
      If there be any Mettall, it lyeth low in the earth, and cannot well be come by. There are some rockes purer than Alablaster.
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