alb

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ælb/
• (British, also) IPA: /alb/

Noun

alb (plural albs)

1. (Christianity, chiefly Anglicanism, Roman Catholicism) A long, white robe worn by priests and other ministers, underneath most of the other vestments.
   • 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus 2014, p. 131:

     ‘The confidence of the very rich,’ thought Father Carter watching Binkie shaking out albs and cottas and calling rather loudly to the organist.

Related terms

• album
• albumin
• albus
• Albion

Translations

• French: aube
• German: Albe
• Italian: camice
• Portuguese: alva
• Russian: а́льба

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