Definition of "alba" []

• A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn. (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)

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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."
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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."