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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

... impressed even those who would have been glad to believe a tale against her, and in short time the affair ceased to be a subject for discussion,— was almost forgotten, in fact, except for a sore spot in Katy's heart, and one page in Rose Red's album, upon which, under the date of that fatal day, were written these words, headed by an appalling skull ...

— What Katy Did At School • Susan Coolidge

... other masters, and that the pieces are duly dated, it is difficult to say any good thing of the book. There are no notes; and Praed is an author who is much in need of annotation. With singular injudiciousness, a great deal of album and other verse is included which was evidently not intended for publication, which does not display the writer at his best, or even in his characteristic vein at all, while the memoir is meagre in fact and decidedly ...

— Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 • George Saintsbury

... it, but the difference exists, nevertheless. [Turns over the pages of a photograph album which is on the table.] Do you ...

— Plays: The Father; Countess Julie; The Outlaw; The Stronger • August Strindberg

... brass and the lettering took much time. He also ordered at Tastavin's a showy album, in which to keep a diary and his impressions of travel; for a man cannot help having an idea or two strike him even when he is ...

— Tartarin of Tarascon • Alphonse Daudet

... youth—and always it does come then, though it is not always confessed—is a gawky and somewhat guilty joy that spends itself in sighs and blushes and Heaven knows what of self-discovery. Thus Grant in Laura's autograph album after all his versifying on the kitchen table could only write "Truly Yours" and leave her to define the deep significance of the phrase so obviously inverted. And she in his autograph album could only ...

— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White

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