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alb
1[ alb ]
noun
- 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.
alb.
2abbreviation for
- (in prescriptions) white.
Alb.
3abbreviation for
- Albania.
- Albanian.
- Albany.
- Alberta.
Alb.
1abbreviation for
- Albania(n)
alb
2/ ælb /
noun
- Christianity a long white linen vestment with sleeves worn by priests and others
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Example Sentences
He had been buried in the vestments peculiar to his office, viz., the alb and tunic.
He wore, I think, a chasuble, the day when first we met; A stole and snowy alb likewise: I recollect it yet.
So I could see the priest in cassock, alb and stole as he would stand before some makeshift altar lit with candles.
It results from removing the chasuble and expanding the alb.
And the deacons came in and began to unrobe him, and took from him the alb and the girdle, the maniple and the stole.
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