Definitions
A dawn song or poem about parting lovers.
Word origin
First attested in 1821; borrowed from Occitan alba, ultimately from Latin albus (“white”); compare Spanish alba (“dawn”).
Used in a sentence
“For quotations using this term, see Citations:alba.”
“On a little plot of grass near the kitchen the family were spreading out a large supply of priestly vestments—albas, casullas, capas pluviales, ornamentos, parmentos, cíngulas, estolas, frontales, etc., etc., etc.”
“Christ, whom they meet, must wear an alba and an amictus, be barefooted, and carry a cross on the left shoulder.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Dawn song”4 letters
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