alb
Noun
Meaning
A vestment of white linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life.
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I'm a sheep producer and one who voted against the involuntary funding mechanism -- production tax, if you will -- that sustains the ALB.
Methodist clergy are not required to be vested when celebrating the Eucharist, though the alb and stole is common.
These all come from an Indo-European base *alb h -, and seem to be connected by whiteness.
These are derived from the syllable cluster alb undergoing metathesis within Slavic to lab and reborrowed in that form into Albanian.
Thus, on a given Sunday morning service, a congregation may see the minister leading worship in street clothes, Geneva gown, or an alb.
While the Lab, also Labe, Labi; Albanian sub-group and geographic/ethnographic region of Labëri, definite: Labëria in Albania are also endonyms formed from the root alb.