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Перевод: alabaster

[существительное]
алебастр ; гипс

Тезаурус:

1. On a visit to this historic church you will see a magnificent Romanesque nave, a Norman font with medieval cover, rare wall paintings of the 14th century, the gilded alabaster tomb of Sir Anthony Browne to whom Henry VIII granted the Abbey, Crusaders" crosses carved by sword and the Senlac Commemorative Window.
2. But it is so vindictively cold in this ill-lit room, and my alabaster hand aches so much from the thousands of words I have put down on this unhappy day, and my head still throbs, and my stomach is so empty, and my grief is so heavy, that I think it would be wise of me to break off at this point, this hinge, blow out the once again guttering candle and for the third time today go down the stone stairs to streets where it is always February.
3. Toft Manor was built as a parsonage for St Andrew's church, which the Shell Guide to Cambridgeshire describes as "gloomy and largely rebuilt, (with) alabaster figures and dreadful Victorian stained glass".
4. Aye, sculpted in whitest alabaster to emphasize his purity.
5. The recruits hurried below to pack into the on-ship chapel, where incense burned before a lambent golden icon of the Emperor and an alabaster idol of Rogal Dorn, the founding Primarch of the Imperial Fists.
6. raised the curiosity of some ladies, who happened to be at the Castle in May 1782, to examine the ruined Chapel, and observing a large block of alabaster, fixed in the North wall of the Chapel, they imagined it might be the back of a monument formerly placed there.
7. In Isfield, Sir John Shurley and his two wives lie side by side on a mighty tomb of alabaster with their children carved kneeling around the base.
8. There had been the usual time-consuming, wearying and slightly acrimonious preliminaries to the setting up of the new squad in C1 and already his mind was reaching out with relief to the solitary contemplation of alabaster effigies, sixteenth-century glass and the awesome decorations of Winchfield.
9. The alabaster freizes of monks with scatalogical Latin inscriptions created by Henry Poole for the Blackfriar in c.1905 come from the same tradition as the eclectic and irreverent use of ethnic imagery and architectural detail built into the new Horniman at Hays Galleria of 1986.
10. The 1820 Gillow table supports a fretted gothick reading stand; two alabaster vases on the mantelpiece are copies of Roman originals and typical "grand tour" souvenirs from the 1860s.
11. My fingers are as white, alabaster white, as the hands of a corpse.
12. EATON CLARKE SECOND FROM LEFT, FOLLOWED BY HIS WIFE, FLT LT CARLTON AND SQDN LDR ALABASTER.
13. Outside McGill University gates on St. Catherine's Street in Montreal is a white marble statue of three young men holding up what looks like an alabaster bowl.