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noun

Album n.

(Rom. Antiq.) A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.

A register for visitors' names; a visitors' book.

A blank book, in which to insert autographs, sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc.

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Etymology of 'Album'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Album" Quotes from Famous Books

... you?—the remarkable sky light That flooded the heavens one evening in May, How together we talked tete-a-tete in the twilight, When the glow of the sunset had faded away. Then you showed me your album. I looked at its pages. With yourself as my guide and companion went through Its contents—there were people of all sorts and ages, But the portrait I fancied the most ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, October 1, 1892 • Various

... then in vogue and red tape for important documents. In all well-regulated dwellings there were whatnots in the corner with shells and waxworks and other objects of beauty or mild interest. The pictures did not move—they were fixed in the family album. The musical instruments most in evidence were jew's-harps and harmonicas. The Rollo books were well calculated to make a boy sleepy. The Franconia books were more attractive, and "The Green Mountain Boy" was thrilling. A small boy's wildest ...

— A Backward Glance at Eighty • Charles A. Murdock

... Joy The Invincible Armada The Gods of Greece Resignation The Conflict The Artists The Celebrated Woman Written in a Young Lady's Album ...

— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

... Petrus, illustrious by descent, and in gravity of character already a Senator, to enter the Sacred Order (the Senate); and we authorise your Illustrious Magnificence to inscribe his name, according to ancient custom, in the album of that body.' ...

— The Letters of Cassiodorus - Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of - Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator • Cassiodorus (AKA Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator)

... Burnett to do a little thing for his album. Burnett complied and charged a thousand francs. "But it took you only five minutes," objected the rich man. "Yes, but it took me thirty years to learn how to ...

— How to Succeed - or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune • Orison Swett Marden

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