alabaster

[US]/'æləbɑːstə/

[UK]/'æləbæstɚ/

Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a type of white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum
adj. white or delicately tinted, smooth like alabaster

smooth alabaster skin

her alabaster cheeks flushed with warmth.

an alabaster candle holder

an alabaster fireplace mantel

Who didn't? Your skin is like alabaster.Do you even have pores?

Source: The Big Bang Theory Season 5

That displeased him; his alabaster brow furrowed. He shook his head, frowning.

Source: Twilight: Eclipse

Across the cyvasse table, the man behind the alabaster army pursed his lips in disapproval. He moved his heavy horse.

Source: A Dance with Dragons: The Song of Ice and Fire (Bilingual Chinese-English)

He saw her hair and her alabaster neck.

Source: The Red and the Black (Part Four)

I've found out what an alabaster brow is.

Source: Anne of Green Gables (Original Version)

Geraldine had an alabaster brow too.

Source: Anne of Green Gables (Original Version)

Like alabaster, if you kiss it with light, it becomes alive.

Source: TED Talks (Video Edition) April 2017 Collection

Her hair was pure gold rippling back from her alabaster brow.

Source: Anne of Green Gables (Original Version)

Alabaster tried to learn about the economics of whaling in Taiji.

Source: Freakonomics

Great alabaster groups occupied every flat surface, safe from dust under their glass shades.

Source: The South and the North (Part 1)

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