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alb

noun as in vestment

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He had been buried in the vestments peculiar to his office, viz., the alb and tunic.

He wore, I think, a chasuble, the day when first we met; A stole and snowy alb likewise: I recollect it yet.

So I could see the priest in cassock, alb and stole as he would stand before some makeshift altar lit with candles.

It results from removing the chasuble and expanding the alb.

And the deacons came in and began to unrobe him, and took from him the alb and the girdle, the maniple and the stole.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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