Alb-: Prefix from the Latin "albus" meaning "white." As in albino and albinism. The term "albino" was first applied by the Portuguese to "white" people they encountered in West Africa. Those "white" people probably had partial or complete albinism, an inherited lack of pigment in the skin, hair, and eyes.
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n. Ecclesiastical . A long white linen robe with tapered sleeves worn by a priest at Mass. [Middle English albe , from Old English, from Medieval Latin alba , from ...
A white linen vestment with close fitting sleeves, reaching nearly to the ground and secured round the waist by a girdle
noun Ecclesiastical . a linen vestment with narrow sleaves, worn chiefly by priests, now invariably white in the Western Church but any color in the Eastern Church ...
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