A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn.
A white-flowered shrub rose of the hybrid Rosa × alba.
A flower of the hybrid Rosa × alba.
Synonym of alb.
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.
A county of Transylvania, Romania.
Scotland, especially referring to the Kingdom of Alba, Scotland, between 900 and 1286.
A female given name from Spanish alba (“dawn”), of modern usage.
First attested in 1848; borrowed from Latin alba (the feminine form of albus (“white”)) in the now-disused species name of binomial nomenclature Rosa alba (it is now considered a hybrid and is accordi...
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