Search for crossword answers and clues
Goya's duchess' place
Answer for the clue "Goya's duchess' place ", 4 letters:
alba
Alternative clues for the word alba
Word definitions for alba in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Alba motorcycle was manufactured at Stettin between 1919 and 1924 by Alfred Baruch. They featured four-stroke engines of 198cc, 247cc and 249cc capacity. Alba also manufactured three-wheeled delivery vans, as well as supplying engines to other manufacturers ...
Usage examples of alba.
I remembered, she was in exile in Alba, and would thus have been summoned to attend.
It is rumored on the coast of Azzalle that the Skaldi have sought to cross the Northernmost Seas to raid Alba, but what can we do?
The Skaldic tribes were numerous, more numerous than the tribes of Alba and Eire, who had united to defeat the Tiberian army, the greatest military force the continent of Europa had ever seen.
Islanded, isolated and hemmed in for centuries by the Master of the Straits, the armies of the kingdom of Alba had never constituted a true threat to our borders.
And the rumor that crossed the waters was this: The Cruarch of Alba was dead, slain, it was said, by his own son, who sought to overturn the old matrilineal rites of succession and seize rulership of Alba for himself.
Lyonette de Trevalion had conspired with Foclaidha of Alba and her son, the new Cruarch, to join forces.
In exchange, she would put the forces of Azzalle at the disposal of Foclaidha and her son to hold the kingdom of Alba against the disposed heir and his allies among the Dalriada.
Necthana escaped the bloodbath and fought his way, with his mother and sisters and a handful of warriors, to the western side of Alba, to seek refuge among the Dalriada.
If there was one thing that terrified me above all others, it was not daring the wrath of the Master of the Straits nor the dangers of distant Alba and the blue-tattooed Cruithne.
At my request, Ysandre had several volumes sent from the Royal Library, texts on Alba and books in Cruithne, and treatises on the Master of the Straits.
Precept, and that is why I am sending you to Alba to bear word to Drustan mab Necthana.
And when you gain the distant shore of Alba, give it to Drustan mab Necthana, that he might know from whence it came.
Somewhere beyond the ability of my vision to scry lay the Straits of Alba, that wind-whipped expanse of water as grey and narrow and deadly as a blade, separating Ysandre from a dream.
I strained to see across the waters and catch a glimpse of distant Alba, but we were too far, here.
We had turned northward in the night, rounding the lower tip of Alba, and I could see her green coastline lying off our starboard bow, hazy in the distance.