Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun White fibrous nerve-tissue, as distinguished from the gray or cellular.
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- noun A white-flowered shrub
rose of the hybrid Rosa × alba. - noun A flower of the hybrid Rosa × alba.
- noun Plural form of
album . - noun A type of
lyrical poetry , traditionallyProvençal , about lovers who mustpart atdawn .
Etymologies
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The alb, form the Latin word alba, or “white,” is the full-length garment symbolizing our baptismal purity, and the robes of righteousness Christ offers us by his grace.
An Instructed Eucharist Fr Timothy Matkin 2007
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The alb, form the Latin word alba, or “white,” is the full-length garment symbolizing our baptismal purity, and the robes of righteousness Christ offers us by his grace.
Archive 2007-03-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2007
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January 31st, 2007 at 7: 47 pm jessica alba is fit! poppa smurf Says:
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The word alba, indeed, meets us not infrequently in connection with ecclesiastical vesture in the first seven centuries, but we cannot safely argue from the identity of the name to the identity of the thing.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Charlize Theron + Katherine Heigl + Ali Larter …. and jessica alba will be the female D'Artagnan ..!!!
The Three Musketeers Will Return to the Big Screen Too?! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Sechuan Button is a term coined by Koppert Cress for Acmella oleracea, a plant developed through cultivation of Acmella alba, which is native to Peru and Brazil.
Sechuan Buttons: The Taste of Electricity Michelle Krell Kydd 2008
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Sechuan Button is a term coined by Koppert Cress for Acmella oleracea, a plant developed through cultivation of Acmella alba, which is native to Peru and Brazil.
Archive 2008-09-01 Michelle Krell Kydd 2008
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Pods of both species are beige to off-white, from which the species name alba, or white, originates.
Chapter 10 1996
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Pods of both species are beige to offwhite, from which the species name alba, or white, originates.
Chapter 45 1990
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In West Africa, there are three recognised types: nigra, widespread in Mali, with small tubers and blackish skin; rubra, with small reddish-gray or reddish-yellow tubers; and alba, which is whitish.
Chapter 19 1987
pterodactyl commented on the word alba
Known in English as Scotland.
August 27, 2008
joanne commented on the word alba
known in biology (and scrabble) as the white matter of the brain.
known in hollywood as jessica.
November 7, 2008
elgiad007 commented on the word alba
Jo, given the image search results, I would say the latter is more popular than the former.
November 7, 2008
bilby commented on the word alba
I wonder if she's ever fully clothed.
November 7, 2008