alba

noun

1. A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn.
2. A white-flowered shrub rose of the hybrid Rosa × alba.
3. A flower of the hybrid Rosa × alba.
4. (form-of, plural, rare)plural of album

   “For quotations using this term, see Citations:alba.”

5. 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.”

   “Christ, whom they meet, must wear an alba and an amictus, be barefooted, and carry a cross on the left shoulder.”

   “Traditional styles such as cassocks and cottas, or contemporary trends in robes and collars, choir albas, skirts, caps and acolyte vestments.”

   “Another canon with a biretta in his hand, wearing an alba and an upper fur mucia, is kneeling to the left of the Crucifix;”

name

1. A county of Transylvania, Romania.
2. (historical, poetic, rare)Scotland, especially referring to the Kingdom of Alba, Scotland, between 900 and 1286.
3. A female given name from Spanish alba (“dawn”), of modern usage.
4. A habitational surname from place names of obscure origin.
5. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Aluminium Bahrain.