What is "alb."

Usage examples of "alb.".

I took in the Savoy operas almost before I could speak, and liked them better than Faust, which my mother had complete in large albums of records.

I have promised a chasuble -- you know, one of those cloak affairs the priest wears over his alb when he is doing Mass?

The three priests are the deacon (usually Whimble) in a gold silk dalmatic over an alb which is a sort of chemise with lace edging.

Hobbes as a general thing) wearing a gold silk chasuble over an alb. Then a third, now and then a layman but usually Charlie Iredale, wearing a gold silk tunicle over an alb.