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▪ I. album1|ˈælbəm|
Pl. albums.
[a. L. album a blank tablet for entries, subst. use of neut. sing. of adj. alb-us white. At first used in Eng. professedly as a Latin word, and so inflected: see in albo below, as we say in toto.]
1. Rom. Antiq. A tablet on which the prætor's edicts and other public notices were recorded for public information; afterwards extended to other lists.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., The high-priest entered the chief transactions of each year into an album, or table, which was hung up in his house for the public use. 1868Smith Dict. Antiq. s.v., The album was so called because it was either a white material, or a material whitened.
2. A blank book in which to insert autographs, memorial verses, original drawings, or other souvenirs. According to Johnson ‘a book in which foreigners have long been accustomed to insert the autographs of celebrated people.’
1651Reliq. Wotton (1672) 30 Was requested by Christopher Flecamore to write some sentence in his Albo. Ibid. 69 In his Album of Friends after the German custome. 1652E. Benlowes Theoph., Who in Loves Albo are enrol'd Unutterable Joyes behold. 1757Chesterfield Lett. 319. IV. 87, I do not mean a German album, stuffed with people's names and Latin sentences. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lxiii. (1853) 533 Grignac..made caricatures of Tapeworm in all the Albums of the place.
3. ‘A book at public places in which visitors enter their names.’ Webster. (This in England is called a Visitors' Book.)
1775W. Mason Gray (Jod.) I remember..to have seen at the convent of the Grande Chartreuse an album of this fashion; and was invited to insert my name in it, as a foreigner. 1822J. Flint Lett. fr. Amer. 294 In the album kept at one of these [taverns]..a hundred folio pages had been written with names within five months.
4. A book for reception of photographic cartes and views, or of postage-stamps, crests, or other things which are collected and preserved; a scrap-book. Also attrib.
1859All Y. Round No. 30. 79 An album full of photographs. 1878Paper & Print. Jrnl. xxv. 11 A still greater novelty is an album containing twenty-four Welsh costumes. 1936C. J. West Bibliog. Pulp & Paper Making 612 Changes in the composition of thick album paper and oiled paper. 1937E. J. Labarre Dict. Paper 97/1 Album papers and boards are cover papers, or double thick pasted board..intended for photographic albums.
5. attrib., passing into adj. Applied to verses of a sort or quality suitable for inclusion in an album (often with disparaging implication).
1918V. Woolf Writer's Diary 7 Aug. (1953) 3 I'm much impressed by the extreme badness of B's [Byron's] poetry... Why did they think this album stuff the finest fire of poetry? 1953C. Day Lewis in Proc. Brit. Acad. XXXVII. 163 Album verse that ranges between the inept and the perfunctory.
6. A long-playing gramophone record or a set of such records.
1957Gramophone Apr. 427/2 That he was too little appreciated in his lifetime makes this memorial album (another record is to follow) even more..important. 1963Oxford Mail 28 Jan. 6/6 Many jazz album covers have little connection with the contents. 1967Times 16 Dec. (Advt.), A four record album with illustrated colour brochure.
▪ II. ‖ ˈalbum2 Obs.
[L. album white.]
1. Path. Leucorrhea.
1527L. Andrew tr. Brunswyke's Distyll. Waters G v, Good agaynst that Album or whyte in women.
2. Rent paid in white money or silver.
1691Blount Law Dict., Album, used for white Rent, or Rent paid in Silver. 1775Ash, Album (in old records) Rent paid in silver.
Add:3. album graecum |ˈgraɪkəm, ˈgriː-| [L. graecum, neut. sing. of graecus Greek], the excrement of dogs, hyenas, etc., after it has dried and whitened, formerly used medicinally.
1607Topsell Foure-f. Beastes 189 The dung of dogges (called by the Apothecaryes Album Græcum) because the white is best,..is verye profitable..against inflamations in the brests of Women. 1804Southey Let. 5 Mar. (1965) I. 355, I have called him [sc. Malthus] a dog by implication—having mentioned his album græcum. 1877Encycl. Brit. VI. 353/1 Buckland's conjecture that they were of fæcal origin, and similar to the album græcum or excrement of hyænas, was confirmed by Dr Prout. |