alabaster

"There were fluted columns in African marble, alabaster columns, and stucco ornamentation decorated with gold leaf."

She reads a couple of very vivid paragraphs about the “whiter-than-white, nearly alabaster, snowy, bleached Alps” in Switzerland, where her family went on vacation.

I hunkered down under the single umbrellaed table, slathering SPF 50 on my alabaster legs.

A sunbeam streamed through the big glass windows of the Serenity Suite and bathed Aunt Florentine’s alabaster white casket in a golden light.

Limestone, marble and alabaster are among the most solid materials employed by artists, yet Deborah Reichmann sees them as endlessly mutable.