alb








noun Ecclesiastical.

  1. a linen vestment with narrow sleeves, worn chiefly by priests, now invariably white in the Western Church but can be in a color in the Eastern Church.

  1. (in prescriptions) white.

  1. Albania.
  2. Albanian.
  3. Albany.
  4. Alberta.

noun

  1. Christianity a long white linen vestment with sleeves worn by priests and others

abbreviation for

  1. Albania(n)
n.

late Old English albe, from Late Latin alba (in tunica alba or vestis alba “white vestment”), fem. of albus “white,” from PIE root *albho- “white” (cf. Greek alphos “white leprosy,” alphiton “barley meal;” Old High German albiz, Old English elfet “swan,” literally “the white bird;” Old Church Slavonic and Russian lebedi, Polish łabędź “swan;” Hittite alpash “cloud”).

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