Alabaster  

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Her cheeke, her chinne, her neck , her nose ;
This was a lillye, that was a rose ;
Her havde so white as whale's bone,
Her finger tipt with cassidone,
Her bosome sleeke as Paris plaster,
Held upp twoo bowles of alabaster

--Partheniades (1579) by George Puttenham

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  1. A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.
  2. A variety of calcite, translucent and sometimes banded.

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